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A Tiler's Afternoon, Paperback / softback Book

A Tiler's Afternoon Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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One grey November morning a friend rang Torsten Bergman and told him of a job on a house-conversion.

Torsten arrived at the empty house in his decrepit car and got to work retiling the bathroom – the tiles were there already – while he waited for someone to turn up and make it all official. So begins this story of one day in an old man’s life: a day of work, of day-dreaming, of memories, of chance encounters (for men and women, not to mention children, burst in on his solitary tiling). And as he put away his tools that evening, there came also a discovery that might, after all, hold a clue to the elusive Meaning of Life. In A Tiler’s Afternoon, Lars Gustafsson has written an enchanting tale, full of insight, wisdom and gentle irony, sensitively conveyed in the childlike simplicity of its telling, as the tiler’s life-story is gradually filled in from his memories.

Here is a book that in short compass embraces a whole rich microcosm.

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