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Hemel En Hel (2007)

by Jón Kalman Stefánsson(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9041415351 (ISBN13: 9789041415356)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Anthos

series

Heaven and Hell trilogy

review 1: Himmel och helvete är en fantastisk bok som får mig att vilja läsa med överstrykningspenna och santeckningsbok. Meningarna är oemotståndliga, de är poesi och de rymmer ett helt liv. Boken är enkel men en av de djupaste jag någonsin läst. Pojken, är en isländsk fiskare för en sådär 100 år sedan. Han fiskar men tillsammans med Bardur, sin bäste vän, drömmer han om ett annat liv. Men livet på sjön är hårt och pojken får på det värsta sätt erfara det.Läs den här! Det är en upplevelse!
review 2: This has to be one of the finest books I have read in a very long time. One can open just about any page at random and find a phrase, a paragraph, of such astonishing poetic beauty that one is compelled to re-read it immediately. Jon Kalman sa... moreid in an interview that, for him, poetry and narrative were the same thing, and he cannot help but blend the two.The plot is simple, but profound. At its most elemental, it is the coming of age story of an unnamed boy, beset by tragedy, hardship, loss and yet who finds some sort of redemptive haven. Again, the characterisation is both simple and profound. The atmosphere of the time and place, a remote fishing village in the north western fjords at the end of the 19th century, is captured perfectly. 'The authorities, merchants, might rule our destitute days, but the mountains and the sea rule life.' The weather is a character in its own right, as it is in many Icelandic books.However, it is the exquisite nature of the writing itself which makes this novel so powerful - its similes, metaphors, imagery and even the aphorisms. I started to jot down quotes to use in this review, but there was such an overwhelming number of them that I gave up.This book cannot be recommended highly enough. It is excellent, even by Icelandic standards! less

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