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INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER A gripping tour de force in which three estranged brothers return to the Swedish lakeside cottage where more than two decades before an unspeakable accident forever altered their family and changed the course of their lives
Takes you deep into an emotional labyrinth where youll cry for these brothers For the men they became for the boys they were for the innocence they lost Brilliant haunting and unforgettable Fredrik Backman author of A Man Called Ove
There is Nils the oldest who couldnt escape his suffocating home soon enough and Pierre the youngest easily bullied and quick to lash out And then there is Benjamin always the familys nerve center perpetually on the lookout for triggers and trap doors in a volatile home where the children were left to fend for themselves competing for their fathers favor and their mothers elusive love
But as the years have unfolded Benjamin has grown increasingly untethered from reality frozen in place while life carries on around him And among the brothers a dangerous current now vibrates What really happened that summer day when everything was blown to pieces
In a thrillingly fastpaced narrative The Survivors mixes the emotional acuity of Edward St Aubyn the literary verve of Ian McEwan and the heart of Shuggie Bain By brilliantly dissecting a mind unravelling in the wake of tragedy Alex Schulman reveals the ways in which our deepest loyalties leave us open to the greatest betrayals
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