Tarjei Vesaas
Birth date: August 20, 1897
Died: March 15, 1970
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Not for me. Boring, unbelievable, and a waste of my time.
A tale of delicate beauty and deceptive simplicity by one of the greatest Scandinavian writers of the 20th century -- The Birds tells the story of Mattis, who has mental disabilities and lives in a small house near a lake with his sister Hege who ekes out a modest living knitting sweaters. From time...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, lit-richer, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, norway, published-1968, tbr-busting-2015, translation, under-50-ratings, snow-times, nature, poetry, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Read from February 09 to 10, 2015 Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth RokkanDescri...
bookshelves: translation, norway, paper-read, one-penny-wonder, autumn-2014, published-1954, aga-saga, bellybutton-mining, betrayal, bullies, coming-of-age, doo-lally, families, games-people-play, handbag-read, lifestyles-deathstyles, newtome-author, overwrought, oochi-coochi-baby-aaw, under-100-ra...
After the first pages, I thought that I will read the novel from the perspective of two sows with cute piglets and one boar, mad with boredom (I wouldn't have minded). Big, fat sows with narrow foreheads and ugly fangs, which lie passively as a latent threat. But later on, the frame widens and we fi...
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