![]() ![]() There is a great sense of physialiy to the writing, bodies are described, their smell, their blemishes and frailties. The swedish prose is more interesting than the characterization or plot, it is largely archaized but with (what I think is deliberate) modernisms snuck in, throwing you occasionally out of the story (would these people use words like "antiseptic"? doubtful) ![]() I'd apply the term "slice-of-life" to the story. Rather than telling a conventional story it simply recounts several episodes, there's no real dramatic arc to any of them (they all end in a vaguely unsatisfactory nothingness) which I suspect it's kind of the point. It details the story (if you can even call it a story) of a handful of peope living in the very northernmost areas of Swedish wilderness, close to the finnish border. Not unusual perhaps, but at least unconventional book. ![]()
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