{"product_id":"engagement-gun-britt-sundstrom","title":"Engagement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS · A Swedish feminist cult classic, translated into English for the first time · Translated by Kathy Saranpa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartina and Gustav are students in 1970s Stockholm. They meet and fall straight into coupledom. But what is coupledom, exactly? A route to marriage? A habit that any intelligent person ought to consider breaking?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartina and Gustav talk about their relationship endlessly — with each other and with everyone else — as they try to make it work. Unwilling to marry, Martina ends up in a permanent state of engagement while her friends settle into marriages and children. And as she throws herself into the political upheaval of the time, with its demos, sit-ins and philosophy seminars, she starts to wonder whether joy comes from being loved, or from living entirely on her own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in Sweden in 1976 as \u003cem\u003eMaken\u003c\/em\u003e, where it was hailed as an instant classic, this is a funny, sharp and heartbreaking novel about love, independence and people who can't love each other the way they want to be loved. The \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e calls it her cult anti-marriage novel, a dark comedy; the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e finds it effortlessly contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author and translator\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGun-Britt Sundström\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1945, Stockholm) is an author, critic and translator, and the author of sixteen books. Since the 1990s she has been one of Sweden's foremost literary translators, including of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, and she received the Helga Prize in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKathy Saranpa\u003c\/strong\u003e translates from Swedish and Finnish into English. Bringing \u003cem\u003eMaken\u003c\/em\u003e into English fulfilled a lifelong ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eEdition details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePenguin Modern Classics paperback, 560 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginally published in Swedish in 1976\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52568818319576,"sku":"9780241688137","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/9780241688137-jacket-large.jpg?v=1790518193","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/engagement-gun-britt-sundstrom","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}