SICKLE : Poems
Language: English Publication details: London Seagull 2018/01/01Edition: 1Description: 140ISBN:- 9780857426116
- 839.821 RUT/SI
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838.914 ENZ/TU TUMULT | 838.914 GRA/OF OF ALL THAT ENDS | 839.143 SIN/OL OLD TRUTHS AND NEW CLICHES | 839.821 RUT/SI SICKLE : Poems | 839.82372 UND/KR KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER: 1. THE WREATH, 2. THE WIFE, 3. THE CROSS | 839.824 KNA/IN IN THE LAND OF THE CYCLOPS : Essays | 841 BAU/SE CHARLES BAUDELAIRE : |
Norway The 1800s Endre must to take over the family farm from his father — his father, who swings the sickle and sharpens the scythe, and says this is the only way in which rocks and stones and mounts and waves can still be ours. But Endre is strange, he keeps to himself, unlike his brothers who are merry and full of joy. He wants to live in the farm without longing to leave, but he is struggling. Then he meets Abelone— "the bearer of light." Tall and thin, always sitting with her books, sharper than all she went to school with, she is about to be a teacher. They appear to come from different worlds — one from the ancient, traditional, natural world; the other from the forward-looking world of modernity, of breaking away, and of renewal. But there is love — great and immediate. With new ideas and new languages, Abelone opens up the world of Endre — whose name means "change." A novel written in lyrical verse, Ruth Lillegraven'sSickle is an unforgettable evocation of longing and loss, of dreams and reality, and the importance of language itself.
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