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Himmelrike Og Helvete (2007)

by Jón Kalman Stefánsson(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

827547437X (ISBN13: 9788275474375)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Forlaget Press

series

Heaven and Hell trilogy

review 1: I libri di Stefánsson non finiscono, muoiono. Ho una grande passione per questo scrittore. Arrivato alla fine mi è sembrato come se qualcuno fosse morto, sparito, avesse cessato di vivere. Anche ogni piccolo personaggio che appare giusto mezza pagina per voltare l'angolo di una stradina è tratteggiato sempre con brevità ma profondità, dicendo qualcosa della sua vita. E tanta esistenza, appunto, all'improvviso mi manca come una persona cara scomparsa.
review 2: It's not about the story, it's about the words, the way the story is put together. You can feel every emotion of every character. The dead souls who work as narrators of the story and the collective "us" in the book somehow brings you right where the author wants you. The images of a storm, or the s... morenow blizzard, or simply the way Pétur sings on the boat to keep the sailors from freezing is marvelous, let alone the way the boy speaks about Bardur. Somehow, you lose contact with your reality as the words flow. Because that's what they do, they flow. Punctuation and sentence structure is completely different that what you could expect, but that's why I'd define the way this novel is written as poetry in prose. Once you pick up this book, you won't be able to put it down so easily, unless there are those poignant moments when you need to close the book for a moment, bring it closer to your heart and then sigh. less

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