The Bridges
by Tarjei Vesaas
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Pub Date Apr 01 2015 | Archive Date Mar 02 2015
Trafalgar Square Publishing | Peter Owen Publishers
Description
A spare, powerful, supremely graceful novel from a giant of Norwegian literature
As strange, unsettling, and memorable as The Ice Palace, this remarkable novel carries with it all the compassion, human insight, and lyrical power of all great Vesaas novels. It describes the changing relationships between three adolescents—an unmarried mother who has drowned her newborn child and the girl and boy who befriend her. Their individual reactions to the tragedy and their efforts to communicate with each other form the central theme of the narrative.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9780720616484 |
| PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
Average rating from 11 members
Featured Reviews
Elyse W, Reviewer
The prose is simple ...touching ...and tender.
Torvil and Aud live next door to each other. Best friends all their lives. They are 18 years old now.
They find the corpse of newborn baby in a forest.
Valborg - the young mother of the baby.
Torvil & Aud share everything with each other --(no secrets), yet when Torvil falls for Valborg things become more complex.
"Torvil, I'm forced to talk about what troubles both of us. I suppose I must presume that what you feel today and will feel tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the year and so on--about Valborg and you. That is wasn't something that simply exploded because of a mood".
Such beauty -- emotional integrity --rich in solace!
This was my first book by Tarjei Vesaas. It won't be my last!
Thank you very much, for the opportunity to read this quietly brilliant story!
Blessings and honor to the author. I understand he passed away this year. (so sad). I can see this book as a movie!
Bookseller 45580
3.5 The Bridge stands for many different things in this short novel. The prose is poetic, succinct, no words wasted in this story of two young people, lived by each other their whole lives. Expected by their parents to eventually marry, they are still just friends. Their certain future will change when they make a horrific discovery on the side of the bridge. Another woman will enter the picture and things take an unexpected turn.
The author treats these characters with unbounded compassion. Using dreams and minimalist prose the author creates a suspenseful atmosphere and a study of human relationships and an unknowing future.
ARC from NetGalley.
Nadia A, Reviewer
Fantastic read filled with superb writing that captures the human spirit perfectly. Loved this book!!
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