Children's Island (Pera Jersild's novel)

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Children's Island (Barnens ö) - A novel by Pierre Jersild (1976) showing the lives of teenagers in Sweden. It was based on a 1980 film by director Poll Pollak.

Reine is an eleven-year-old boy living in the suburbs of Stockholm. He is afraid of adolescence, seeing in him a threat to his own personality. A single mother raising a boy decides to send him to summer camps on Isle of Wight, the largest summer holiday resort in Sweden. Her mother is leaving, leaving Reine not to go to the island, deciding to test her theories, including cancer (she thinks it causes radio waves). To survive, he must find a job himself. She finds a job while painting ribbons for mourning wreaths. Unfortunately, the owner, Olga, goes bankrupt. Reine, who is in danger of starvation, joins the raggare group - teenage hooligans and criminals, who are mostly involved in breaking up public events. This is not the end of his odyssey - it encounters even stranger people.

The book is an attempt to show the fears and threats that young Swedes face in the adult life. Describes cruelty in a supposedly friendly Swedish school child, adult attitudes, brutality of life, and the cult of violence.

The book has been translated by Halina Thylwe into Polish.

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