Engagement

Gun-Britt Sundström

'I want to have him, I really do. I just don't want him to have me.' Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A declaration of co-dependency? A new dimension of commitment and responsibility? A sexual confrontation? Or is it a habit that an intelligent person must consider breaking? Martina and Gustav discuss their relationship endlessly, between themselves and with others, as they try to make it work. Engagement, set during a time of social change and political upheaval, sees Martina trying to engage with the world on her own terms. Unwilling to marry, she finds herself in a state of permanent engagement while her friends settle down to marriage and children; uncertain of the world's future, she engages with demos, sit-ins and philosophy seminars in her quest for a new blueprint for joy.

Author(s): Sundström, Gun-Britt
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 03/07/2025
Pagination: 512 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published By: Penguin Classics
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction|Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999|Narrative theme: Interior life|Fiction in translation
Dimensions: 216x137x29
Weight: 474
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241688120