Martina Montelius
Autor(a) de Främlingsleguanen
Obras de Martina Montelius
Sexdöd på äldreboende - en e-singel ur Granta #6 1 exemplar(es)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Membros
- 34
- Popularidade
- #413,653
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 11
This slim book is mostly an account of this deeply original young narrator’s methods for navigating in the world without drawing attention to the fact that she’s five and living alone. But it’s also a book about change. For one day an eviction notice is on the doormat. And the iguana seems to have an illness, becoming more and more apathic. Perhaps dying?
Written in a crisp, literary, pretty detatched style, the voice of it’s narrator, but still bursting with strangeness, this is an odd book, both funny and sad. It’s easy to see where the hype comes from. Occasionally it becomes just a little too clever for it’s own good, but never annoyingly so. And the ending sends parental chills down my spine.… (mais)