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The Trio
The Trio | Johanna Hedman
7 posts | 5 read | 2 to read
Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old world elite, and one an ordinary boy from the suburbs - but over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm they are drawn together magnetically. Many years later, Hugo is living alone in New York. He hasn't spoken to Thora for over two decades. He didn't reach out to her when August died. But one day their daughter turns up, fully grown, on his doorstep, with questions about her parents that only Hugo can answer - and the memories of those luminous days come flooding back. Modern yet timeless, poignant and euphoric, The Trio is a novel about the path not taken, the people we might have become, and the relationships which shape and haunt us long after they come to a close.
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BarbaraBB
The Trio | Johanna Hedman
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#BookReport 09/24

I read a lot again this week. I had high expectations of all three of them, too high I think in hindsight. Hard Girls is really good, just not what I expected. Both others, hmmm 🤷🏻‍♀️

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BarbaraBB
The Trio | Johanna Hedman
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Mehso-so

This book felt like a De Beauvoir-about-Sartre novel of the 21st century. Set in Stockholm instead of Paris, still very European. Intellectual talks, misunderstandings, casual sex. It didn‘t really work for me, I didn‘t like the three main characters and their conversations. Other than that, nothing much happens unfortunately.

#ATY24 - Two word title starting with The #52BookClub24 - Abrupt ending

Librarybelle Great to cover a couple of prompts with it! 9mo
Hooked_on_books Another excellent picture from you! (I‘m not surprised.) Even though this one didn‘t work for you, the premise has me intrigued. But then others have compared it to Sally Rooney so, no thanks! 9mo
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BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books I shouldn‘t compare it to Sally Rooney. This one feels a bit pretentious to me, but maybe you like it because it‘s more intellectual than the usual novel about twenty somethings. I prefer Rooney though 😉 9mo
sarahbarnes I‘m sorry it didn‘t work for you! I agree no one does this like Rooney. I liked this when I read it, but with more distance I‘m less a fan. 9mo
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes I expected to like it just like you! 9mo
batsy It sounds like just the kind of pretentious book I enjoy 😁 but that's too bad about the characters. It's the characterisation that makes a book like this good, imo! 9mo
BarbaraBB @batsy I know what you mean and I usually do too but this one, hmm, no 😊 9mo
Bluebird At least it fulfilled 2 prompts 😀 9mo
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JillR
The Trio | Johanna Hedman
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We follow Hugo, August and Thora during their studies in Stockholm. It‘s a love story, a friendship story, yet there‘s a distance throughout, which could be because this is translated from Swedish. An intense story with no real plot, slow and at times frustrating, but I also liked it. Imagine the relationships in Conversations with Friends crossed with Elena Ferrante‘s writing maybe? It also left me hanging, and I kind of liked that too.

sarahbarnes I‘d agree with that mashup! I liked this one, too. 10mo
BarbaraBB Having this one my shelves as well! 10mo
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sarahbarnes
The Trio | Johanna Hedman
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I enjoyed this book, which reminded me a little of Sally Rooney (but no one can quite write these types of stories like she does). Wonderful character development and I loved how the story progressed as told from three different perspectives until the end. A portrait of the small ways we make decisions in our lives that don‘t always make sense.

BarbaraBB Such a coincidence, I just bought this one! 13mo
sarahbarnes @BarbaraBB ah, such a coincidence! 😊 I think you‘ll like it! 13mo
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LitsyEvents
The Trio | Johanna Hedman
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repost for @BarbaraBB:

March 2024 picks for the #EuropaCollective! I‘d love to read both and can‘t wait for your votes. Links to the books in the comments! Thanks for hosting Jamie!

#Buddyread

vote on the original post:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2585718

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Jbbuick
The Trio | Johanna Hedman
Mehso-so

Hmmm. I‘m not sure I liked this but I persisted to the end. I couldn‘t see how there was enough fire in the relationship to cause so much distress. Maybe it‘s those cool Scandinavians.

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Pia_hb
Trion | Johanna Hedman
Pickpick

The scenery might be more interesting if you live In Stockholm or grew up there. The story however is both more free from time and place. When do you really know someone and what does it mean to share a life or part of a life?