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Lars Sund


Born
in Jakobstad, Finland
January 01, 1953


Lars Sund was born in Jakobstad in 1953. After studying at Åbo Akademi, he moved to Uppsala, Sweden in the early 1980s, where he worked as a journalist. He made his literary debut with a poetry anthology in 1974, and published his first novel, Natten är ännu ung (The Night is Yet Young) the following year.

Colorado Avenue was published to great acclaim in 1991, with Sund being compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie. It was to be the first in a trilogy of novels set in the fictional Ostrobothnian community of Siklax, depicted so vividly that there are regular reports of keen, albeit geographically challenged, readers driving around Ostrobothnia in search of the setting for their favourite books.


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Average rating: 3.63 · 785 ratings · 82 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
Colorado Avenue (The Siklax...
3.61 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions
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Kolme sisarta ja yksi kertoja
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Där musiken började (Jakobs...
3.80 avg rating — 102 ratings — 3 editions
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Lanthandlerskans son
3.61 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
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Natten är ännu ung
3.20 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions
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En lycklig liten ö
3.41 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions
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Eriks bok
3.75 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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Prinsessan av Vasa
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Aamu-unisen lintubongarin t...
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Colorado Avenue Lanthandlerskans son Eriks bok
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“I dödsannonsen stod det att fru Emmy Schalin, född Oriander, "stilla insomnade i tron på sin frälsare, omgiven av sina närmaste". Maggi hade utformat texten, och just ingenting var sant.”
― Lars Sund
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“Rucklaren skjuter ifrån sig glaset, den handfallne visar sin förmåga, den fåkunnige vinner kunskap. Den som mottar förtroendets dyrbara gåva och förvaltar den rätt han börjar ofta växa. ( Men Gustav växte inte, han svällde, och det är en helt annan sak. )”
― Lars Sund, Lanthandlerskans son
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“Men människan har liten makt över händelsernas gång. Vi är alla passagerare på Historiens fartyg, men till kommandobryggan saknar vi tillträde: styrhyttens dörrar är låsta med dubbla slag, vi kan blott speja in genom fönster och ventiler och försöka få syn på rorgängaren som styr detta fartyg- om det alls finns någon som styr.”
― Lars Sund, Lanthandlerskans son
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