Engagement - Gun-Britt Sundström Translators: Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia

Translators: Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

than the tenuous bonds of family that hold us together

Kenji Miyazawa's poems testify to his deep love of humanity and nature

'So my mind sinks in this immensity:and foundering is sweet in such a sea'

Laws tighten

Engagement - Gun-Britt Sundström Translators: Karen Fleetwood and LaëtitiaMartina 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