![]() ![]() The book is the story of two girls just on the cusp of being young adults they are the sort of girls that wouldn’t usually get on as one is quiet and the other is boisterous and a live wire. The night of the event that is at the heart of the book Unn said: It’s such fun that you wanted to come. “It must have been cold too? It’s dreadfully cold her this evening” ![]() “Dark?” yes, but that doesn’t matter replied Siss, although she had been quite nervous of the darkness and the short cutr through the wood. Unn must have been standing at the window watching for Siss, for she came out before Siss reached the doorstep. So here we have the forerunner to those great Norweigian writers of today. ![]() This is one of a number of books that were brought out by Peter Owen a publisher I think has such a great list of writers. He was nominated 30 times for the Nobel Literature prize and in strong contention on three occasions. He was known for his insights into everyday life he won the Nordic book council prize the biggest book prize in Scandinavia. But Tarjei Vesaas was doing the same fifty years before them and in his time he wrote for more than fifty years his book was mainly based around his rural life his farmhouse is a place of pilgrimage for fans of his writing. we marvel at knausgaard and fosse for their insight and vision into the human character these days. In my second book of the year we are back in Europe and in the north with one of Norway’s greatest writers. ![]()
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