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Das Verschwiegene (2011)

by Linn Ullmann(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

3630874096 (ISBN13: 9783630874098)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Luchterhand

review 1: I've read four novels by Linn Ullmann and I've enjoyed and admired them all. The Cold Song begins with the discovery by three boys of a body buried in the woods near a small vacation town on the coast of Norway. The boys themselves are not exactly innocents and the woods are suitably atmospheric, misty and dark, haunted by the drowning of a child. The boys, their parents, the two elderly women who live in a century-old house, are all in some way involved in the disappearance and death of Milla. No one is entirely innocent. Jenny, who's seventy-fifth birthday party takes place on the night Milla vanishes, is coping with memories of failure and sorrow and alcohol abuse. Milla's employers, Siri and Jon are deeply unhappy, their family almost exquisitely dysfunctional, their d... moreaughter Alma troubled and vindictive. Yet it is an immensely rewarding experience to get to know these characters and to reach with them, at the end, a kind of healing. Linn Ullmann is an enormously talented and versatile novelist. The English edition is translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
review 2: A fantastic read! I was absolutely mesmerized by Linn Ullmann's thriller about a dysfunctional family and how they each react to the murder of 19-year old Milla, a summer nanny for Jon Dreyer and his wife, Siri. This novel delves deeply into the marriage and the painful betrayals (on the part of Jon, a writer in the throes of writer's block:) the relationships of Siri to her aging mother, Jenny Brodal, and the effects of the accidental drowning of her four-year old brother, whom she had been instructed to watch over when Siri was six. She further depicts the confusion and anger of the children, caught up in the chaos of modern living. I have been literally transfixed by Ullmann's rich characterization. The book is translated from the Norweigan, and has received rave reviews internationally. I highly recommend! less

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