Collected Works

25 hrs. 57 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Lydia Sandgren

Narrator Ilya Dementyev

Description

First time in Russian! An international bestseller for all fans of “The Dignity of the Thief” (The Pigeon). The novel “Collected Works” has been awarded the prestigious August Strindberg Prize and recognized as Sweden’s most important literary event of the year.

Gothenburg awaits a retrospective of Gustav Becker. The legendary enfant terrible will present his works—paintings that promised their creator eternal fame even while he was still alive. From posters all around the city, the attentive gaze of the artist’s favorite model, the wife of his best friend, Cécilia Berg, watches. She vanished fifteen years ago. She slipped away, leaving behind her husband, two children, and questions that her daughter Rakel is now trying to find answers to. And it seems she has discovered a clue hidden between the lines of a book that ended up in her hands by accident. But should anyone trust those words?

Her father, Martin Berg, spent half his life trying to control words. The publisher—someone who once dreamed of a career as a writer—bunkered himself in drafts that, after a quarter of a century, never turned into a novel. And meanwhile, life became history—an immense canvas, from the 1960s to the present day. And now memories are being laid onto canvases, teasing with bright colors.

Is it time to sum everything up? Or is the most interesting part still ahead?