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Indlæser... April Witch (1997)af Majgull Axelsson
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. SO GOOD!!!! I'm going to recommend this gem of a book to everyone ( ) Het verhaal van vier dochters die niet of nauwelijks samen met hun biologische moeder opgroeien. Alle vier voelen ze zich te kort gedaan en niet gezien, hoe zeer ze hun best ook hebben gedaan. Hun leven wordt getekend door het gevoel slachtoffer te zijn, jaloezie en een diep minderwaardigheidsgevoel. Als lezer krijg je de geschiedenis van deze vier vrouwen vanuit zowel hun eigen perspectief als vanuit dat van de anderen te zien. Hierdoor wordt het pijnlijk duidelijk dat ieder zijn eigen kijk op het harde bestaan heeft en zich daar ook angstvallig aan vast blijft houden om te overleven, hoe verwrongen dit beeld ook is. Bijzonder knap vind ik de weergave van de gedachten en handelingen van de verslaafde. Haar redeneringen zijn haarscherp getroffen als van iemand die voortdurend de werkelijkheid in haar eigen voordeel draait zodat zij haar zin zal krijgen, meestal om te kunnen scoren. Het geheel viel mij wel wat zwaar op de maag. In alle ellende is geen enkele sprankje hoop en geen enkele relativering. Ook is er geen enkele humor te vinden. Alle personages nemen zichzelf bijzonder serieus en daarmee worden ze meelijwekkend en is het begrip dat je als lezer wil voelen, bij geen enkel verhaal helemaal op te brengen. Het zijn de vier verschillende perspectieven die het interessant houdt. Desirée was born in the 50's with severe celebral palsy and epilepsy, and has never been able to walk or stand as her legs don't function. Her mother sent her away to an institution for deformed and retarded children, advised to do so by doctors who insisted Desirée would never be able to learn to even eat on her own. All of her life was spent in the hands of doctors, some of them kind and caring and some of them treating her like an interesting case study and not much more. She has another gift, however, which allows her to experience the world she can never go out into: she is an April witch, and she can insert her self into birds or people or even a drop of water, if she wishes to. She is also obsessed with the thought that one of the three girls her birth mother fostered after she was abandoned lives the life that was really meant for her, and at first her intervention in their lives is a matter of trying to figure out who stole what was rightfully hers. As time passes, however, her focus changes to simply finishing the story the doctor she is in love with has asked her to tell: what happened that afternoon, when he found Ellen, Desirée's birth mother, collapsed on the floor, with all three girls standing in shock around the body? I've previously read bits and pieces of this book, but it wasn't until I read it through properly now that I realized I never got around to sitting down and reading it from start to finish. I should have, as it is a very interesting read. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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“No excuses will do anymore. Time to put my sisters in motion.” Desirée lies in a hospital bed thinking, dreaming. One of the children born severely disabled in 1950s Sweden and then routinely institutionalized for life—and one of a very few to survive nearly to the century’s end—she cannot walk or talk, but she has other capabilities. Desirée is an April witch, clairvoyant and omniscient, leaving her own body and traveling into the world denied her. The working-class woman who gave Desirée up at birth took in three foster daughters several years later, and even as adults they know nothing of the existence of their fourth “sister.” Christina, abused by her psychotic birth mother and burdened by a sense of inferiority, is now a physician; Margareta, the onetime foundling, an astrophysicist who can never manage to complete her dissertation, is as restless and sensual as she was in her youth; and Birgitta, in her day the fastest, sexiest teen queen in town, is now a derelict alcoholic and substance abuser. In spite of her physical disabilities, Desirée possesses tremendous intelligence, and she observes the world around her with great acumen. She has developed a very special relationship with her primary care physician, Dr. Hubertsson, who realizes that she could and should know something about her own background. Unbeknownst to him, she goes on to make supernatural use of this information. Sensing that her own time is drawing to a close, Desirée also feels that one of the others has lived the life that should have been hers. One day, each of the three women—Christina, Margareta, Birgitta —receives a mysterious letter that inspires her to examine her past and her present, setting into motion a complex fugue of memory, regret, and confrontation that builds to a shattering climax. April Witchcreated a furor upon its original publication in Sweden, where it was an immense bestseller. Addressing themes of mother-daughter relationships, competition between women, and the failures of Sweden’s postwar welfare state, it is foremost a thrillingly written and fascinating story. No library descriptions found. |
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