To Siberia
by:
Per Petterson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781860464607 (1860464602)
ASIN: 1860464602
Publish date: 1999-04
Publisher: Harvill Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
World War II,
Scandinavian Literature,
Denmark,
Fiction,
Historical
Per Petterson is such a gifted author that with the simplest of language and briefest of sentences you are somehow transported into a world of sharp images.This poignant tale highlights the lives of a very close brother, (Jesper) and sister, only known as "sistermine", who grow up in a very rural sh...
3.5 stars for story, 4.5 stars for writingI don't know if there is a genre called artistic fiction, but that is the best way to describe this book. I really enjoyed reading it very slowly, creating pictures, sounds, smells, and emotions in my mind. Sometimes I would go back and re-read a passage j...
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