Gun-Britt Sundström: Engagement, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Engagement
- Translation:
- Kathy Saranpa
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 07/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241688120
- Item number:
- 12228774
- Volume:
- 495 Pages
- Weight:
- 600 g
- Format:
- 216 x 135 mm
- Thickness:
- 40 mm
- Release date:
- 3.7.2025
- Series:
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time
'I want to have him, I really do. I just don't want him to have me.'
Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A declaration of co-dependency? A new dimension of commitment and responsibility? A sexual confrontation? Or is it a habit that an intelligent person must consider breaking? Martina and Gustav discuss their relationship endlessly, between themselves and with others, as they try to make it work.
Engagement , set during a time of social change and political upheaval, sees Martina trying to engage with the world on her own terms. Unwilling to marry, she finds herself in a state of permanent engagement while her friends settle down to marriage and children; uncertain of the world's future, she engages with demos, sit-ins and philosophy seminars in her quest for a new blueprint for joy. First published in 1976, when it was heralded as an instant classic, Engagement remains as relevant, hilarious and heartbreaking today.