Bloody Awful in Different Ways von Andrev Walden
The award-winning, internationally bestselling novel about a boy who has seven fathers in seven years

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 352 Seiten; paperback
Erscheinungsjahr: 02.2026
Verlag: Penguin
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781405971270

Once I had seven fathers in seven years. This is the story of those years.

I'm fizzing. I love not being his son.
Yes. I can feel it in my whole body. A great thrill – as if an adventure has begun. As if I'm the boy in a book about a boy who finds out his dad is the king of a magical and distant land.

Christmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev's mother lets him in on a secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. And so begins a new kind of childhood, in which fathers come and go, arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet. Fathers can be magicians or murderers, artists or thieves, and, like growing pains, or the weather, they appear uninvited and leave without warning. Fathers are drawn to his mother like moths to a flame – but even she can't control how they behave.

Vivid and joyful, raw and tender, Bloody Awful in Different Ways is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins and ends; and above all, about men. Because after all, you learn an awful lot about this strange species when you have seven fathers in seven years.

Andrev Walden is an acclaimed Swedish journalist and columnist. In 2017 he was nominated for the Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism, praised for his ability to 'find the every-day drama in the big questions', and to make us 'laugh and see the world, the family and ourselves in a new and slightly wiser light'. He lives in Stockholm. Bloody Awful in Different Ways is his first novel.

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