Modern: En Berättelse

On a grey October morning a young man waits at Stockholm's Central Station for the mother he has not seen in years, a tall, worldly woman who spent two decades touring with an anatomical museum, and he dreads what she will turn out to be. Victoria Benedictsson and Axel Lundegård's novel of 1888 follows what happens when she comes into his life. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Opus 5.5.