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amalia1985's review
5.0
‘’If someone could look down on us from above, they’d see that the world is full of people running about in a hurry, sweating and very tired and their lost souls always left behind, unable to keep up with their owners. The result is great confusion as the souls lose their heads and the people cease to have hearts. The souls know they’ve lost their owners, but most of the people don’t realise that they’ve lost their own souls.’’
Αlways, always in a hurry. Wake up, get ready, eat, walk. Drive, catch the train. Shop, socialise whether you like it or not. You have to. Talk. Don’t talk. Don’t be inactive. Don’t spend time alone. You will be branded a ‘’loner’’ and a ‘’weirdo’’. Listen to the fashionable mottos dictated by social media. Don’t. Do. Do. Don’t.
And then we forget to listen to the voice of our soul. We pay so much attention to what the others tell us and we forget to think. We concern ourselves with the opinions of others and we don’t care what our own self thinks of us and our actions.
Olga Tokarczuk creates a beautiful fable about a young man who realises he has lost the only thing that really matters. His soul. So, he decides to withdraw from a society of empty words and loud demands. He decides to wait. He decides to spend the time to understand himself. Until the day a little girl appears outside his window and his garden starts growing again.
But where can we find our soul? Joanna Consejo’s moving illustrations are rather telling. In a snowy field, echoing with the laughter of children, in a cafe with a hot cup of coffee and a book, in a village funfair, in a train, gazing over the fields, dreaming. Far away from those who exploit everyone and everything.
Many thanks to Triangle Square and Edelweiss for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
My reviews can also be found on https://theopinionatedreaderblog.wordpress.com/
Αlways, always in a hurry. Wake up, get ready, eat, walk. Drive, catch the train. Shop, socialise whether you like it or not. You have to. Talk. Don’t talk. Don’t be inactive. Don’t spend time alone. You will be branded a ‘’loner’’ and a ‘’weirdo’’. Listen to the fashionable mottos dictated by social media. Don’t. Do. Do. Don’t.
And then we forget to listen to the voice of our soul. We pay so much attention to what the others tell us and we forget to think. We concern ourselves with the opinions of others and we don’t care what our own self thinks of us and our actions.
Olga Tokarczuk creates a beautiful fable about a young man who realises he has lost the only thing that really matters. His soul. So, he decides to withdraw from a society of empty words and loud demands. He decides to wait. He decides to spend the time to understand himself. Until the day a little girl appears outside his window and his garden starts growing again.
But where can we find our soul? Joanna Consejo’s moving illustrations are rather telling. In a snowy field, echoing with the laughter of children, in a cafe with a hot cup of coffee and a book, in a village funfair, in a train, gazing over the fields, dreaming. Far away from those who exploit everyone and everything.
Many thanks to Triangle Square and Edelweiss for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
My reviews can also be found on https://theopinionatedreaderblog.wordpress.com/
mayasophia's review
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
I absolutely love illustrated books and though Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead didn't entirely captivate me, I admire her writing so much that I was eager to see what The Lost Soul would be like. The story is quite sparse and reflective, but it still retains the beauty and poignancy that I associate with Tokarczuk's writing. This is a story about a man who feels untethered from himself and when he consults his doctor, the doctor tells him that he must go find his soul in a quiet place and wait patiently for it to catch up with him. Where this story really comes to life, though, is in the illustrations by Joanna Concejo. For how sparse the words are, there is a very rich, contemplative story here that I believe will reveal more and more of its intricacies with each reading experience.
meganelise's review
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Beautiful illustrations, and a short story to make one think about the speed of modern life.
marenzurek's review against another edition
5.0
(unglücklicherweise finde ich die deutsche Ausgabe nicht bei Goodreads, deshalb steht hier übergangsweise die polnische im Goodreads Regal)
Was für ein wunderschön gestaltetes Buch. Haptik, Illustrationen, das Papier, die Geschichte. Ich will nicht allzu viel dazu sagen, aber es ist ein Stück Lebensweisheit.
Was für ein wunderschön gestaltetes Buch. Haptik, Illustrationen, das Papier, die Geschichte. Ich will nicht allzu viel dazu sagen, aber es ist ein Stück Lebensweisheit.
nicolealves's review against another edition
2.0
beautiful ilustrations but the story is way to short for a whole book. it's 2 pages of text.
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