The story of a young drifter who rebels against a privileged upbringing in Britain and goes away to work in a pallet factory in provincial Sweden in the late 1970s might seem impossibly dull.

• 本书讲述了一位年轻漂流者的故事：他放弃了到英国享受良好教育的机会，并独自远到了20世纪70年代瑞典小镇上一个托盘工厂工作。