The best intentions: a novel (1st North American ed.)

In this original, extraordinarily moving, and highly personal novel, world-renowned stage and film director Ingmar Bergman goes back to the time of his parents and grandparents, to the years shortly before, during, and just after World War I.

The Best Intentionsis, ulimately, a love story on many different levels: a man and woman in love; parents and children; and love as miracle, that love which is overriding and, so often, inexplicable.

Bergman was inspried to write this loosely biographical novel when he began rummaging through the voluminous family picture albums.

That, plus family letters and records, and his own memories and unique imagination, helped him recreate this lost world in evocative and graphic detail.