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The Helios Disaster

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"I am born of a father. I split his head." This modern spin on the myth of Athena plunges us deep inside the mind of an unlikely twelve-year-old goddess confined to a small Swedish town. Separated from her father just moments after bursting from his skull in full armor, Anna is packed off into foster care where she learns to ski, speaks in tongues, and negotiates the needs of a quirky cast of relatives. Unable to overcome her father's absence, however, she finally succumbs to depression and is institutionalized. Anna's rallying war cry rings out across the pages of this concise and piercing novel as a passionate appeal for belonging taken to its emotional extreme. "The emotional intensity created by Bostrom Knausgaard recalls Sylvia Plath, but her spare, accelerating modern myth owes something to the poet/classicist Anne Carson's novels in verse. This novella cannot be read quickly, its psychological range and febrile prose demand attentiveness. It takes skill and imagination to describe extreme emotions in ways to which everybody can relate but that's what Bostrom Knausgaard achieves in this short, piercing book." The Independent

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781642860689
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 128
  • Udgivet:
  • 7. april 2020
  • Størrelse:
  • 129x15x203 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 218 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..
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"I am born of a father. I split his head."
This modern spin on the myth of Athena plunges us deep inside the mind of an unlikely twelve-year-old goddess confined to a small Swedish town. Separated from her father just moments after bursting from his skull in full armor, Anna is packed off into foster care where she learns to ski, speaks in tongues, and negotiates the needs of a quirky cast of relatives. Unable to overcome her father's absence, however, she finally succumbs to depression and is institutionalized. Anna's rallying war cry rings out across the pages of this concise and piercing novel as a passionate appeal for belonging taken to its emotional extreme.
"The emotional intensity created by Bostrom Knausgaard recalls Sylvia Plath, but her spare, accelerating modern myth owes something to the poet/classicist Anne Carson's novels in verse. This novella cannot be read quickly, its psychological range and febrile prose demand attentiveness. It takes skill and imagination to describe extreme emotions in ways to which everybody can relate but that's what Bostrom Knausgaard achieves in this short, piercing book." The Independent

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