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N©Þr Patrik Lundberg kom hem fr©Æn sin resa till Sydkorea skrev han boken Gul utanp©Æ som handlar dels om adoption, dels om identitet och utanf©œrskap. Denna version ©Þr en l©Þttl©Þst och snabbl©Þst bearbetning av originalboken, och med den vill Patrik n©Æ en helt ny grupp l©Þsare med sin humor, sitt allvar och sin ber©Þttelse. Boken ©Þr en sj©Þlvbiografi och kom ut f©œrsta g©Ængen p©Æ Rab©♭n & Sj©œgren 2013. [Elib] No library descriptions found. |
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”Gul utanpå” (which translates as ”Yellow on the outside”, referring to how someone once compared his cultural identity to a banana) is Lundberg’s autobiography about going to Korea to find his own roots. Starting with his upbringing as one of very few ”different” kids in his hometown, small town blues quickly sketched but beautifully captured, the main focus here is on the year he spends in Seoul, to study but mainly to find his birth family.
Lundberg writes with a frank honesty about the experience of finding himself popular with girls for the first time in his life (and what that does to him), about the joy of meeting his family turning more and more complicated as he struggles with their expectations, about his drinking habits and about the shock in finding out his birth papers have been altered to make him ”easier to adopt”.
In short, there’s a lot in here which I haven’t read about before, and I feel wiser for having read this quick book. As a person sharing a lot of musical references with Lundberg, it’s also a joy to find the quotes from lots of great indie songs hidden in the text everywhere. However, the style, effective as it is, feels almost too straight at times. It’s so clear it’s a little bland. Even if it doesn’t say so anywhere, I’m left with a feeling this is a book geared towards a younger audience. As such, it’s probably even better. Me, I’m turning my eye towards Lundberg’s debut novel, just released last month. ( )