Peter Owen Cased Classics: The Ice Palace (Hardcover)

from rrainer

This is another book that I'm not sure how to talk about, as though I'm missing the vocabulary to express what it made me think and how it made me feel. There's a fascinating intensity throughout the whole thing, whether it was coming from the young girls or from the ice palace itself or the tens...

from bolgai

Had this elegant short novel not been assigned I most likely wouldn't have finished it, but now that I have read it I'm glad that setting it aside wasn't an option. Vesaas writing style is almost painfully spare, which takes some getting used to, yet once I got into it I kept marveling at the bea...

from auntmarge64

This Norwegian novel, written in 1963, is a timeless, intense, beautiful little gem about friendship, obsession, and the call of the ice. I couldn't put it down. When I rate a book I start by assuming it will be 5 stars and then mark it down as it goes along, but all the way through this I kept t...

from Luli81

"Promise in deepest snow from Siss to Unn: I promise to think about no one but you." Sometimes, only a gleaming glance is enough. Siss and Unn, two eleven-year old girls living in an isolated, rural community somewhere in Scandinavia, need only a single evening together to forge an uncommon frien...

from jveezer

I had never heard of Tarjei Vesaas before seeing him on the short list for the first annual Daphne Award for the best books of 50 years ago. This award was conceived by Jessa Crispin of Bookslut to go back and possibly correct the often politicized and near-sightedness of book awards by applying ...