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Himnaríki Og Helvíti (2007)

by Jón Kalman Stefánsson(Favorite Author)

4.17 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

9979788976 (ISBN13: 9789979788973)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Bjartur

series

Heaven and Hell trilogy

review 1: Such a strange, beautiful book. Halldór Laxness meets Dylan Thomas via fairy tale. A hymn to the constantly shifting scale of heavenly and hellish experience immanent to the expanse of human life. Its rhythms match those of the Icelandic landscapes, which are inseparable from the characters who inhabit them. The narrative voice, which is that of a ghostly chorus who can achieve neither resurrection nor ultimate death, produces a perspective which is bound neither by consciousness nor time, what was nor what is. The book as a whole reads like a sad, hopeful eulogy to longing: for the dead, for the living and for those we want to possess us. The first hundred pages is as close to literary perfection as you are likely to find, and its reflections on the simultaneous power an... mored impotence of language are incredible.
review 2: Du griner lidt og græder meget med denne bog - på den gode måde! Der er så mange store følelser, at det næsten ikke kan rummes - og bogen indeholder en af de stærkeste sorgbeskrivelser, jeg har læst. Jeg fik en "langsom start" og tænkte, at det var smør for øregangene (hørte den som lydbog), men at den haltede lidt på indholdssiden. Men hav tålmodighed nogle sider, så bliver du rigt belønnet! less

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