Engagement (Penguin Modern Classics) *BRUISED BOOK*

Each of our "bruised books" are slightly scarred from living their lives - whether during transportation or accidentally dropped - but it doesn't mean that the stories within their pages are any less valuable.

This copy of Engagement has a light mark at the corner of its beige cover.

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A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time‘I want to have him, I really do. I just don’t want him to have me.

Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A declaration of co-dependency? A new dimension of commitment and responsibility? A sexual confrontation? Or is it a habit that an intelligent person must consider breaking?

Martina and Gustav discuss their relationship endlessly, between themselves and with others, as they try to make it work. Engagement, set during a time of social change and political upheaval, sees Martina trying to engage with the world on her own terms.

Unwilling to marry, she finds herself in a state of permanent engagement while her friends settle down to marriage and children; uncertain of the world’s future, she engages with demos, sit-ins and philosophy seminars in her quest for a new blueprint for joy.

First published in 1976, when it was heralded as an instant classic, Engagement remains as relevant, hilarious and heartbreaking today.