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Kalle Assbing: The Father, the Son and Göran
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Kalle Assbing: The Father, the Son and Göran

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Keyword: documentary, personal essay, colonialism, Eritrea, Swedish foreign aid, Dawit Isaak, Swiss photojournalist

Swedish title: Fadern, sonen och Göran Size: 300 x 240 mm Pages: 144 Format: hardcover Edition: 1500 Language: Swedish. English Editor: Björn Almqvist Text: Kalle Assbring Book design: Sebastian Wadsted Printing: Livonia Publisher: Dokument Press Pub Year: 2016 Weight: 1036 gr ISBN: 9789185639946
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    Article no.: 9789185639946

    Winner of the Swedish Photo Book Award 2017! The Father, the Son and Göran is a story about Sweden and Eritrea. About being a son and about being a father. About life and death and then life again. About Dawit Isaak. About fighting for your life in the desert and on the ocean, arriving in Sweden and being deported. About colonialism, politics and Swedish foreign aid. About civil war in Africa and burning cars in Stockholm. About parallel worlds that are linked together. This is the story of how one man and what happened one night in Eritrea almost thirty-five years ago have affected people around the world ever since. The photojournalist Göran Assbring (the father of Kalle Assbing) was 33 years old when he left his wife and his three small children behind in their terraced house in Akalla, Stockholm, to return to Eritrea in order to follow the Eritrean Liberation Front in their struggle for independence from Ethiopia. It was to be his last tour. Göran was shot and killed in an ambush in October 1983. Back in Akalla, his wife, newly born twin daughters and their eight-year-old son Kalle were waiting in vain. Kalle Assbring (1975-2017) was a Swedish photojournalist --- Swedish: Boken ”Fadern, sonen och Göran” är en berättelse om Sverige och Eritrea. Om att vara son och om att vara far.Om livet och döden och livet igen. Om Dawit Isaak. Om att kämpa för sitt liv genom öken och över hav, och komma till Sverige. Bli utvisad och börja om. Om kolonialism, politik och svenskt bistånd. Om parallella världar som är sammankopplade. Det är historien om hur en man och ett överfall en kväll i Eritrea för snart trettiofem år sedan har påverkat människor runt om i världen sedan dess. ”Fadern, sonen och Göran” är en personlig berättelse som rör oss alla. Den handlar om Kalle Assbrings far, fotografen Göran Assbring, som dog en våldsam död i Eritrea 1983. Men också om alla de eritreanska barn som döpts efter den svenske martyren – om deras liv och i vissa fall om deras flykt.
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