{"product_id":"childrens-island-9780803275676","title":"Children's Island","description":"First published in Sweden in 1976, \u003ci\u003eChildren's Island\u003c\/i\u003e increased the popularity and critical acclaim of its author, P. C. Jersild. The novel, which has sold more than 400,000 copies in Sweden alone, has been translated into French, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian. A film was made out of it. The University of Nebraska Press is the first to make available in English a book in some ways reminiscent of J. D. Salinger's \u003ci\u003eThe Catcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildren's Island\u003c\/i\u003e is told from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy, Reine Larsson, who succeeds in \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e going to summer camp. Reine stays home because time is running out: puberty, sexual desire, adulthood are threatening to rob him of the energy he needs to find the answers to life's dilemmas. He lulls his divorced mother into thinking he has gone to camp and confronts the task of supporting his love for McDonald's hamburgers. What he finds in Stockholm--a kind of Children's Island all its own--is a series of often hilarious adventures that help Jersild define contemporary society. It's a society of isolation, violence, and aggressive commercialism, a society actually much more threatening to Reine's psyche and well-being than the changes taking place within his own body. The revulsion he feels for his sexuality and that of others becomes symbolic of the alienation that defines the world Reine grows up in. Robert E. Bjork, general editor of the Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation series, calls \u003ci\u003eChildren's Island\u003c\/i\u003e \"an extremely entertaining, extremely funny, and very serious book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e P. C. Jersild\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803275676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe translator, Joan Tate, is distinguished for her original children's fiction and for her many translations of books both children and adults. Among her numerous translations of adult fiction is \u003ci\u003eWinter's Child\u003c\/i\u003e by Dea Trier Mørch (UNP, 1986).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41015312711795,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":42.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8ca4cd5c-6ebb-4bb4-8743-5375be0020e8.jpg?v=1697556352","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/childrens-island-9780803275676","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}