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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I found this to be an interesting thought exercise about an internal conflict, but while skimming I see a lot of reviews for a very different book. As with the other dark and bleak novellas I've read recently, my mood determines whether I can enjoy it or hate it. I enjoyed this one. ( ) "A life devoted to looking after a shabby, sickly sister out in the wilds" By sally tarbox on 7 April 2018 Format: Kindle Edition Some of the Peirene novellas are compulsive reading, unputdownable...this isn't one of them, and I struggled through the 180 pages for well over a week. Set in the remote North of Norway, it's narrated by a middle-aged disabled woman. Confined to the house, she is completely dependant on her elder sister, Ragna, for absolutely everything. Ragna is resentful, vengeful... but the narrator is no saintly invalid, as she spies on Ragna, screams abuse, tries to wrest back some power to herself, whether through the spells she casts, her writings, her actions. And as Ragna embarks on a relationship with a man she's met, her sister feels more vulnerable than ever... It's vivid, it brims with bile and fury...but I have to say it was with relief that I reached the last page. Maybe *2.5 sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las series editorialesPeirene Press (Chance Encounter: Meeting The Other, 18)
A tragic love story about two sisters who cannot live with or without each other. Far out on the plains of northern Norway stands a house. It belongs to two middle-aged sisters. They seldom venture out and nobody visits. The older needs nursing and the younger keeps house. Then, one day, a man arrives… Why Peirene chose to publish this book: ‘This is a tragedy about a woman who yearns for love but ends up in a painfully destructive conflict with her sister. It is also a story about loneliness – both geographical and psychological. Facing the prospect of a life without love, we fall back into isolating delusions at exactly the moment when we need to connect.’ -- Dagbladet ‘Raw and dark and wonderfully different from anything else.’Dag og Tid ‘Innovative and sensuous.’Bergens Tidende. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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