This is the first book selected for the Blogger’s Book Club I’ve joined. (if you’re interested in joining just say!)
This book is set in Scandinavia – in Sweden in fact – right on the border of Norway. I haven’t read much Scandinavian fiction before so was interested immediately – also because my friend James is planning a journey to that very part of the world.
It’s the saga of three women – Hanna – who lives at the turn of last century in a remote town near Norway, Joanna – her daughter (who in the present is dying in a nursing home) and Anna the grand-daughter – who is piecing their stories together.
I didn’t think I was going to like this book at all. The opening sequence of Anna stressing out about her mum in a nursing home left me cold. But the story of Hanna kept me turning the pages and then I wanted to finish it.
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The cover reads as if Anna is finding out the history of her forebears but the text doesn’t read like that and it spoils it a bit as you are constantly fighting against the logic of it all. After all it’s not like she can ask her mother anything – she’s not speaking – and Hanna is long gone… Once you let go of that logic it draws you in.
The writing is sparse. It’s hard to tell if that’s a function of the translation. I didn’t mind it but it didn’t feel warm or engaging.
Overall I felt it was an interesting book, but it left me a little cold. A bit like Scandinavia I suspect! Well, in winter anyway…
I tried to read this one about a year ago and couldn’t get into it.
I’ve been looking for something Swedish to read on the plane. I think attempting a novel or something in Swedish is just gonna be too much at the moment, so maybe this is the right thing for me? Or maybe I’ll just sleep, watch movies, and listen to music?