Description
Title: Ice Palace, The
Author: VESAAS TARJEI
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 14/05/2018
Imprint: PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
Gleebooks Review:
The intense friendship which young girls can often experience, set against the force of a Norwegian winter: a young soul’s struggle through the unknown and the unknowable, depicted with unerring, poetic economy. A masterpiece.
David M
ISBN: 9780241321218
Weight: 114gr
Dimension: 197mm X 130mm
Pages: 144