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Varvsslammer (Shipyard Clutter)
‘Shipyard Clutter’ is the birthday present from Aino Trosell and the publishing house Breakwater Publishings, when Gothenburg turns 400 years in 2021.
Welcome back to the shipyard work on Gothenburg’s northern riverbank!
We are walking down to the vibrant workplace in the early 1970s Gothenburg. In captivating writing, we enter the ship’s hull and end up in the workshops. We are the first women at the shipyard and feel that welding resembles handicraft work. We are sheet metal workers and pipe layers and sit in solitude in a crane and feel the responsibility. We are cold and have fun, we joke when nothing else helps, we are roasting under the deck and are longing for our holidays. Because we believe the shipyard work will last forever.
We also partake in the beginning of the end, the unlikely end to this important era in the country’s industrial history. Towards the end of the book, the picture darkens. But then it turns around. Nothing is impossible, history continues, and layers are added and then suddenly the shipyards are no more, not the slightest trace. ‘Shipyard Clutter’ is Aino Trosell’s 27th book, a loving memory of a bygone era. In the book you will find the author’s lifelong literary experience as well as a young woman’s untainted observations to the extent that beads of sweat will run down your neck.
There had been thousands of them. The noisy breaks, mixing nations, political and religious divisions had moved them. A welding shepherd from Turkey and a sheet metal worker injured in the war from Poland were forced to help each other through countless misunderstandings.
He had been lying on his back on the deck, with this foreman and two other pipe layers, one from Norway and one from Pakistan. There they were, shoulder by shoulder, trying to decipher the complicated pipe drawings. The foreman had held the drawings with arms stretched out, so they could see the bends in the right direction. Brothers in arms at deck. The sun shone through the paper, out on the river were boats with fish and grains. From below in the hull and from the workshops the roar was heard from sledgehammers and compressed air chisels. There they lay and learned about boiler pipes and pumps, detour pipes and vents while the seagulls were screaming high above and the bells in Gamla Lundby church proclaimed that yet again someone had died.
From ‘Shipyard Clutter’
Author
Aino Trosell
Publisher
Breakwater Publishing AB
Genre
Skönlitterära texter och realistiska foton
Cover and graphic design
Sebastian Pettersson
Format
Cover flaps
Language
Swedish
Number of pages
320
Release Date
31-03-2021
ISBN
978-91-86687-60-1
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