by Marianne Fredriksson · De Geus Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789044507690
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«Anna, Hanna en Johanna» is the literary fiction novel by Marianne Fredriksson, published by De Geus Pocket in paperback (404 pages, in Dutch).
Inge, a Swede, and Mira, a Chilean emigrant, meet at a garden center. Both are single mothers and find solace in growing plants, though a great cultural divide separates them. Over time, Mira confides in Inge the wounds of a dark past and the grief for her daughter; Inge, for her part, faces revelations that upend her way of understanding her world.
A 1994 work, originally in Swedish; this Dutch edition is translated by Janny Middelbeek-Oortgiesen. It received the Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek in 1998.
For reading groups and readers of translated literary fiction who enjoy stories of female friendship, family secrets and encounters between cultures.
Marianne Fredriksson was a Swedish author who worked and lived in Roslagen and Stockholm. Before becoming a novelist, she was a journalist for various Swedish newspapers and magazines, including Svenska Dagbladet.
