Snow

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'Beautifully measured and unadorned, Snow does not burden itself as a conventional "historical növel"; this is a more subtle thing, and Ithought of Breughel, Bergman and Kafka.' alan warner 'The sky was now a block of darkness, punctured only by driving snow. The stars had gone out, the- king was dead. And the wound on his arm refused to heal/ So begins Snow, the first növel by Ellen Mattson to be published in Britain - a brilliant exploration of an individual's codes of ethics and honour in the face of political and social collapse. The man is Jákob Tora, - a small-towo apothecary, stumbling drunkenly through the streets, a refugee from his own home, carrying a deep stab-wound inflicted by his wife. He does not understand what brought on this sudden violence, any more than he can come to terms with the death, in battle, of his king. When the town begins to fill with the starving, f rost bit ten remnants of the defeated army, and Jákob is conscripted into helping to embalm the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'Beautifully measured and unadorned, Snow does not burden itself as a conventional "historical növel"; this is a more subtle thing, and Ithought of Breughel, Bergman and Kafka.' alan warner 'The sky was now a block of darkness, punctured only by driving snow. The stars had gone out, the- king was dead. And the wound on his arm refused to heal/ So begins Snow, the first növel by Ellen Mattson to be published in Britain - a brilliant exploration of an individual's codes of ethics and honour in the face of political and social collapse. The man is Jákob Tora, - a small-towo apothecary, stumbling drunkenly through the streets, a refugee from his own home, carrying a deep stab-wound inflicted by his wife. He does not understand what brought on this sudden violence, any more than he can come to terms with the death, in battle, of his king. When the town begins to fill with the starving, f rost bit ten remnants of the defeated army, and Jákob is conscripted into helping to embalm the king's body, all his certai^ties are called into question. Though set in 1718 on the west coast of Sweden, Snow is a profoundly modern and universal növel, interested less in the real-life historical drama that forms the backdrop than in the emotional and morál dilemma of Jákob Töm - a simple- loyal, Tionourabie man who finds himsélf the damaged centre of a collapsing world. Vissza