The Serious Game

Sweden at the turn of the previous century. Arvid, an ambitious and well-educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, during an idyllic summer vacation and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Astrid is frightened of being tied down by his emotions. Trapped inside loveless marriages of convenience, they struggle in later years to rekindle the promise of their romance with bitter and tragic results.

Hjalmar Soderberg, born in Stockholm, in 1869, was one Scandinavia's leading modernist writers. The Serious Game is Sweden's most celebrated and enduring love story.

Author: Hjalmar Söderberg
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
Published: 07/01/2001
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.16w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780714530611

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/04/2002 pg. 55
New York Times 05/26/2002 pg. 22