The Ice Palace (Peter Owen Modern Classics)

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In simple, poetic language it tells a fairly simple if devastating tale of friendship and childhood. One need only watch Persona and The Double Life of Veronique to observe at once the deep similarities and considerable differences between two of the filmmakers whom I most admire. and becomes a modern day Alice, but instead of a well or a rabbit hole, she enters door after door, fissure after fissure and she just won't stop.

It is filled with symbols and metaphors that are very direct to the plot and characters and open up a much broader understanding of Siss and her tribulations. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. In diesem schmalen Roman folgen wir dem jungen Mädchen Siss, das in einer ländlichen Gemeinde in Norwegen aufwächst.The role of her school friends in what I interpreted as the 'shattering of the ice palace' was not brought out. It loves to play sometimes with you, but you know all its clever tricks, all these whispers and rustles.

Esta es la historia de una amistad que se forja fugazmente, con una intensidad puramente inocente y genuina entre dos niñas de once años. Although short, allot happens in this book in nice short digestible chunks making it really good for new fluent readers or reading in sections in class, which is where I first encountered it in year 3. Nothing weighs on her like what Unn didn't say, but in descriptions of her interaction with her classmates, her parents, and the Auntie Vesaas captures the childish (and also adult) difficulty of communicating and of dealing with the unspoken very well.Si le sumamos además una ambientación invernal en Noruega, con la que el autor logra traspasar el frío gélido de sus páginas al lector, hace que esta sea una lectura en conjunto fascinante.