Kristin Ómarsdóttir
Auteur van Children in Reindeer Woods
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- Kristin Ómarsdóttir
- Geboortedatum
- 1962-09-24
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- female
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- Iceland
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- #190,120
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- 3.8
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The story reminded me a great deal of [b:An Untouched House|40194572|An Untouched House|Willem Frederik Hermans|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1527020055l/40194572._SX50_.jpg|1797555] by [a:Willem Frederik Hermans|184683|Willem Frederik Hermans|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1251877831p2/184683.jpg], for the way it shows how incessant violence warps and shatters any kind of natural human feeling. Unlike Hilbig's novel, though, this story focuses on a child's perceptions of war, which made the story all the more disturbing to me.
The writing is very flat. It mimics the passing musings of a child playing with her dolls, or worrying about what to wear on any given day, or what the rules of decorum are for a proper 11 year old girl...only the events witnessed by this child are horrific.
There is a level of abstraction to the story that took some getting used to. It's a fictional war held in a fictional valley. Somehow this abstraction didn't distance me from the human happenings, though. Instead, it felt like an appropriate tone to remind me of how war brings with it the relentless, relentlessly casual, and nearly abstract murder of others. The detached tone felt right, in that people in war will detach from horrific events as a way to cope.… (meer)