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The Ice Palace
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway.
In winter, the black ice cracks like a gunshot across the lake, growing thicker and darker every night. Nearby, a frozen waterfall transforms into a fantastic, baroque structure with dripping buttresses, flying spurs of ice and translucent, sparkling towers. The schoolchildren call it the ice palace.
When eleven-year-old Unn arrives in the village, she avoids the other children—she lives alone with her aunt and nurses a secret grief. But her boisterous classmate Siss refuses to be ignored and the two girls strike up an intense friendship. That is, until Unn decides to explore the Ice Palace on her own, squeezing deep into its beautiful but chilling inner chambers.
When Unn doesn't return home, Siss must struggle to cope with the loss of her friend, without succumbing to an ice palace of her own making.
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The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas is praised for its simplicity, subtlety, and strength, offering a unique and unforgettable experience. The narrative is noted for its urgency and relentless beauty, while its laconic sentences are compared to the cold and fantastic nature of ice. The atmosphere is described as magical, conveying a poetic essence that resonates deeply with readers. It's considered a haunting and poetic story, surprisingly not more renowned worldwide.
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ISBN: 9780241321218
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 January 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 113g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Tarjei Vesaas (Author) Tarjei Vesaas died at the age of 72 in the same small village where he was born- Vinje in Telemark, an isolated mountainous district of southern Norway. He wrote more than 25 novels and was nominated 30 times for the Nobel Prize.
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