Used book – The Christmas Oratorio, Göran Tunström, Marc De Gouvenain, Lena Grumbach

Trampled by a herd of cows, Solveig, the soprano, will not be able to take her place in Sunne in "The Christmas Oratorio." Around this founding drama, the destiny of three generations of Nordensson will unfold in twentieth-century Sweden—their tribulations, their dreams, their sufferings, their transgressions, and their visionary desires which, throughout the narrative, develop into a true oratorio. For such is the motif of this rich, intense, and lyrical novel, which draws us to the limits of enchantment, madness, death, and love, and which brought Göran Tunström recognition in Sweden upon its publication in 1983, then in France (Actes Sud, 1987).