A review by jgwc54e5
The Antarctica of Love by Sara Stridsberg

5.0

The opening of this book is breathtaking and devastating! The writing is incredibly beautiful but the story itself is cold, dark and upsetting. The narrator is Inni, a young woman, a daughter, mother and heroin addict and she is dead. She tells the story of her life and brutal murder, and then watches her children and mother afterwards. It isn’t told in a linear way and very often it circles around to the same incidents particularly her death. I found it a powerful read, difficult to keep reading but also impossible to stop. I was drawn to the stark beauty of the cover and the intriguing title and then the words are so compelling, this book will probably haunt me for ages.