Stig Dagerman - O Vestido Vermelho

Written "in the deepest solitude," according to the author, "The Red Dress" (1948) is one of Stig Dagerman's most beautiful and painful novels. Under the shadow of a mother's death, Alma, the life between a father, Knut, and a son, Bengt, is forever disrupted, and their raw emotions, distrust, and hatred erupt abruptly. Flowing from the snowy streets of Stockholm to the waters that bathe remote Swedish islands, the drama becomes murky when Gun spills over into the family, awakening an animalistic jealousy that devours his already fragile lucidity.

A book of youthful rebellion against inherited truths and a journey through the harsh passage to maturity, "The Red Dress" is an intense reflection on purity dissolved, like candle wax, by the fiery course of life.