# A Tiler's Afternoon

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- Authors: [Lars Gustafsson](https://www.bookquiver.com/lars-gustafsson)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-09-13

## Description

One grey November morning a friend rang Torsten Bergman and told him of a job on a house-conversion. Torsten arrived at the empty house in his decrepit car and got to work retiling the bathroom – the tiles were there already – while he waited for someone to turn up and make it all official. So begins this story of one day in an old man’s life: a day of work, of day-dreaming, of memories, of chance encounters (for men and women, not to mention children, burst in on his solitary tiling). And as he put away his tools that evening, there came also a discovery that might, after all, hold a clue to the elusive Meaning of Life. In A Tiler’s Afternoon, Lars Gustafsson has written an enchanting tale, full of insight, wisdom and gentle irony, sensitively conveyed in the childlike simplicity of its telling, as the tiler’s life-story is gradually filled in from his memories. Here is a book that in short compass embraces a whole rich microcosm.

## Editions

### A Tiler's Afternoon

- Publisher: harvill_press
- Translated by: Tom Geddes
- ISBN: 978-19-1070-194-2
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2018-09-13
- Language: en_GB