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Ваша оценкаThe Sorrow of Angels is the second novel in an epic and elemental trilogy by the winner of the Icelandic Prize for Literature Jón Kalman Stefánsson, and the follow up to Heaven and Hell. The Sorrow of Angels continues to follow "the boy" who, after suffering a terrible loss at sea, stops at a small Icelandic village that will become his adopted home and his redemption. The book is a part of a trilogy, but as Susan Swarbrick wrote in The Herald Scotland, "If you haven't read Heaven And Hell, the ...
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Shellty28 апреля 2019 г.There are books that entertain you but don’t stir your deepest thoughts. Then there are others that cause you to question, that give you hope, broaden the world and possibly introduce you to precipices. Some books are essential, others diversions.
1113- Shellty27 апреля 2019 г.Читать далее
He who dies never returns, we’ve lost him, no power in the universe is able to bring us the warmth of a vanished life, the sound of a voice, the hand movements, the touch of humour. All the details that comprise life and give it validity have vanished into eternity, vanished only to leave an open wound in the heart that time gradually transforms into a swollen scar. Yet he who dies never leaves us completely, which is a paradox that comforts and torments at once; he who dies is both near and far.
1129 - Shellty28 апреля 2019 г.Читать далее
Many choose to keep silent when life stings them hardest, since words are often just lifeless stones or torn and tattered garments. And they can also be weeds, harmful disease vectors, rotten pieces of wood that can’t even hold an ant, let alone a man’s life. Yet they’re one of the few things that we actually have handy when everything appears to have betrayed us. Keep that in mind. As well as that which no-one understands – that the least important, most unlikely words can, entirely unexpectedly, carry a great load and bring life undamaged over dizzying ravines.
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