Björn recenserade Mary Jones historia av Elin Boardy
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3 stjärnor
Treasure Island retold from the POV of Long John Silver's creole wife and the servant girl at the Spyglass Tavern, queering the story in more ways than one. Kicking off with Silver's death, drunk and bitter over what he lost, Boardy builds a grief-driven story that's both clever and imaginative; not just a POV shift but using the established story as a history in the shadow of which other histories pass under the radar. If I don't quite buy it as the 1st-person narrative of an uneducated 18th century servant girl, and if some of the secondary characters are a bit flat, it's still engrossing enough for me to read most of it in one sitting.
Untranslated so far. Anglogaggle could do worse.
3.5.
Treasure Island retold from the POV of Long John Silver's creole wife and the servant girl at the Spyglass Tavern, queering the story in more ways than one. Kicking off with Silver's death, drunk and bitter over what he lost, Boardy builds a grief-driven story that's both clever and imaginative; not just a POV shift but using the established story as a history in the shadow of which other histories pass under the radar. If I don't quite buy it as the 1st-person narrative of an uneducated 18th century servant girl, and if some of the secondary characters are a bit flat, it's still engrossing enough for me to read most of it in one sitting.
Untranslated so far. Anglogaggle could do worse.
3.5.
