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Welcome to America by Linda Boström Knausgård [Linda Bostrom Knausgard], Martin Aitken (translation) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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First published as Välkommen till Amerika in Sweden in 2016 by ModernistaLonglisted for ALTA’s National Translation Award 2020Finalist for the Best Translated Book Award 2020A family on the brink of silenceEllen has stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother’s barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. We’re a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. Welcome to America is an exquisite portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child in the throes of trauma, a family on the brink of implosion, and the love that threatens to tear them apart.°°° LINDA BOSTRÖM KNAUSGÅRD is a Swedish author & poet, as well as a producer of documentaries for national radio. Her first novel, The Helios Disaster, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in the United States. Welcome to America, her second novel, was nominated for the prestigious Swedish August Prize & the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Prize in her home country, & was also longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award & the ALTA National Translation Awards in Pr

Who reads Welcome to America?

Author

Linda Boström Knausgård [Linda Bostrom Knausgard], Martin Aitken (translation)

Publisher

World Editions LLC

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781642860498

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (60 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14