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Sven Delblanc, a Swedish novelist, dramatist and literary historian (assistant professor at the University of Uppsala) is the winner of prestigious awards for literature, and this novel was awarded to him in 1964.
A Room for Girls is a terrific novel about the manipulations we are ready for in order to reach our goal, about young people growing up in the modern uncertain world and facing the weight of their own decisions, whatever they may be.
A story about family love, about memory's ability to keep the truth alive, and about the danger of denying memory. At the same time extensive and intimate, comic and tragic, it is a kaleidoscopic, deeply emotional saga about home and the heart.
The novella was published for the first time in 1961 in the magazine Novij mir and aroused anger among critics, pointing out that it is only "about the narrow, intimate experiences of the heroine".
Meredith is a member of a rich and conservative family, which caused her problems as a child because she didn't fit in anywhere. Over the years, however, she grew into a beautiful and self-confident woman, engaged to her love from school. And then she mee