Synopses & Reviews
The Sorrow Gondola was the great Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer's first collection of poems after his stroke in 1990. Translated by Michael McGriff, Tranströmer's great work is available in its first single-volume English edition.
Tomas Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011.
Synopsis
One of Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer's greatest poetic achievements, published here in a single volume.
About the Author
Considered by many to be an inevitable recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Tomas Tranströmer is one of Sweden's most noted authors, and his several collections have been translated into several languages, including English. Recently, New Directions published his "new collected poems" in The Great Enigma. But this collection, one of his most renowned, is in a single volume.