The Trio
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Hugo has lived in New York for many years, mostly alone, when he receives an unexpected visit from a young woman. She is the daughter of two strangers he once knew very well, in a beautiful city he once called home. The young woman has come to ask him about her parents, about the past. And as Hugo sits across the table from her, still afraid after all these years, the memories rise to the surface, as luminous and intoxicating as ever . . . From New York to Stockholm, Paris to Berlin and Belsize Park to Brighton Pier, Johanna Hedman traces the restless choreography of a love triangle. Bittersweet and euphoric, The Trio is an instant classic- a novel about the path not taken, the people we might have become and the relationships that haunt us long after they have ended.
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A book about how we fit in with others, and how the facades we put up protect and yet also feed our anxieties. It's about how we never escape class differences or family histories. It's about the abilities or inabilities to read other people, and to communicate with each other. It's another tale about this new generation (the Sally Rooney generation?) that's too much in their own head while crippled by world anxieties. I liked how the story communicates a place and a culture. You can recognise Sweden and their people. I also liked how the characters changed locations and countries, in order to change themselves. I appreciated how it left a lot up for speculation. Leaves you with questions. Maybe too much so for Hugo though. I wonder if i would go back to the first part, the future, if I would find there some answers for his rather blank interior in the past. The writing also had a few sentences where it felt it was trying too hard.I loved that conversation in the end, about how when you enter a new culture, the people around you came up on different literature and don't even know those works considered classics in your own very small language corner. (I guess I have to check out [a:Cora Sandel 123374 Cora Sandel https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1337059183p2/123374.jpg]'s Alberta Trilogy!)
