Björn recenserade Evas bok av Marianne Fredriksson (WW-pocket)
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5 stjärnor
Another modern Swedish classic I've meant to read for years and... holy shit (you'll get that later) it's good. A retelling of Eve's story in Genesis - her oldest son has just murdered her other son, and she runs away trying to find some answer for it, find an I Am to balance her husband's Thou Shalt, try to figure out what to do with all this rage and grief and guilt she's supposed to carry silently and why she can't remember anything from before she met Adam. It gradually becomes clear that this isn't a faithful adaptation of the Bible; there are other people there, some who have also started developing language - it's not a story about giving names to things, it's a story about giving them meaning. Come to think of it, this is essentially Auel's Earth's Children done right, and all in just 211 pages.
Another modern Swedish classic I've meant to read for years and... holy shit (you'll get that later) it's good. A retelling of Eve's story in Genesis - her oldest son has just murdered her other son, and she runs away trying to find some answer for it, find an I Am to balance her husband's Thou Shalt, try to figure out what to do with all this rage and grief and guilt she's supposed to carry silently and why she can't remember anything from before she met Adam. It gradually becomes clear that this isn't a faithful adaptation of the Bible; there are other people there, some who have also started developing language - it's not a story about giving names to things, it's a story about giving them meaning. Come to think of it, this is essentially Auel's Earth's Children done right, and all in just 211 pages.