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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A compact, poetic exploration of what it means to be human.,
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This review is from: Downfall: A Love Story (Hardcover)
Enquist's obsessive meditation on the task of living,
on the redemptive power of acceptance and forgiveness,
and on the need to search for the voice we deny ourselves
and others when we hide our deformities away, builds
its themes through repeated juxtapositions of its
narrative strands: a freak with two heads, a couple
grieving their twice-lost child, and the narrator's longing
for the father he never knew.
Despite its sometimes difficult subject matter, the book sustains a tone of hope and renewal. Its poetic language, its sensitive depiction of the process by which love rescues the outcast, and-- above all-- Enquist's deft touch with his imagery and his ideas, all give this book a magic which transcends its apparently depressing elements. |
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Downfall: A Love Story by Per Olov Enquist (Hardcover - May 1988)
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