Merethe Lindstrøm
Autore di Days in the History of Silence
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Weihnachten bei den Elchen: Die schönsten Wintergeschichten aus Skandinavien (2015) — Autore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1963-05-26
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Norway
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Mads Wiel Nygaards legat (1994)
NotaBenes litteraturpris (1996)
Natt og Dag-prisen / Osloprisen
Tanums kvinnestipend (1997)
Nominert til Kritikerprisen (2007)
Dobloug-prisen (2008)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 28
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 255
- Popolarità
- #89,877
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 56
- Lingue
- 9
The story revolves around Eva and Simon, an elderly Norwegian married couple with three grown daughters. Both Eva and Simon have events in their past they keep hidden from their children and others. We learn Eva had a son out of wedlock, who she gave up for adoption when he was six months old. And Simon, we learn, is a survivor of the Holocaust.
For most part of the novel, Simon is silent. He is somewhat older than Eva, so he could be suffering from dementia, or it could be that survivor’s guilt drove him to silence, after his efforts to find family members who went missing turned out to be futile.
"He never told them about it, although he planned and practiced all these evenings, nights, days, when he went over the painful aspects of the past with me. Instead he became more and more silent."
Throughout the novel I felt more empathetic towards Simon than Eva. I thought had Eva been more supportive, Simon would have been able to tell their children of his loss. Perhaps Eva was not fond of the idea of telling their children of his past because she did not want to share her’s with them, but I can not help it but think Simon’s unrevealed past became a constant burden to him, eating him up inside.… (altro)