The Birds
by:
Tarjei Vesaas (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780720611434 (0720611431)
Publish date: 2002-12-31
Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
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...
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This is a beautiful, sad and simple story about a woman around 40 and her younger, dim-witted brother Mattis, for whom she is sole caretaker. For the first 60-70 pages I wondered if I would make it through a book that required me to inhabit the inner workings of a mentally handicapped man – it seeme...
I discovered another great Norwegian novelist. Neat, straight and profound. Vesaas is perfect in putting its pen in the shoes of Mattis, "The Idiot".
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