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The survivors, Alex Schulman ; translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles

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The survivors

Alex Schulman ; translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles

Three brothers return to the summer house by the lake where, more than twenty years earlier, a catastrophe changed the course of their lives. Now, as young men, both estranged and shackled by their past, they are here to scatter their mother's ashes. There is Nils, the eldest, who escaped his family at the first opportunity, and Pierre, the youngest, easily bullied and quick to lash out. And there is Benjamin, the family's nerve centre, perpetually on his guard, his vigilance the legacy of a home where the children were left to fend for themselves, competing for their father's favour and their mother's elusive love. Among the boys, a dangerous current now vibrates. What really happened that day at the lake house, when everything was blown to pieces?

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