6/9/2023 0 Comments The Fragments by Toni Jordan![]() ![]() ![]() Academics and authors have based entire careers around the fragments, while Karlson fans around the world have clamoured to see the fragments themselves, the few scattered words of a lost masterpiece encased beneath thick glass. Of the manuscript itself, only seven burnt pages, referred to as ‘the fragments’, survived the flames. Speculation over The Days, the Minutes has been the subject of fierce debate for decades. Karlson’s friend, publisher and maybe-lover, Charles Cleborn, who died by Karlson’s side, was the only other person to have read The Days, the Minutes. Some say Karlson’s death was the work of the Mafia others that it was a terrible accident. Tragically, Karlson died in New York in 1939 aged 28, trapped in a burning warehouse along with every copy of her eagerly anticipated second novel, The Days, the Minutes. It’s the kind of book you might have read in high school, along with To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye and Romeo and Juliet. ![]() Published to instant acclaim in 1935, it’s considered a classic. This week, Michelle McLaren discusses Toni Jordan’s 2018 novel of intrigue and literary obsession, The Fragments.Īll Has an End was Inga Karlson’s only book. Welcome to Flashback Fridays! This is a new monthly feature where we review books we overlooked when they first appeared. ![]()
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