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A review by lynsey
The Antarctica of Love: A Novel by Sara Stridsberg
5.0
Inni lives her life on the margins, but it is a life that is full and complex, filled with different shades of dark and light… Until she is brutally murdered one summer’s day, on a lake shore at the heart of a distant, rain-washed forest.
On the surface, this is the story of the moment her life is violently extinguished – a moment that will never end, not ever – but it is also about the time before, and about the lives that carry on afterwards. It’s about her children, her parents, her childhood of neglect, her volatile adolescence, and the chain of choices, tragedies and accidents that lead her to a life on the streets and take her into the wrong crowd, the wrong places and, finally, the wrong car with the wrong person.
This book was heartrending, dark, bleak and it was disturbing but I LOVED it. The writing was just beautiful and very moving. Inni was a heroin addict but there was much more to her. Inni tells the reader her story, jumping between her childhood, adulthood, and the present when she is dead and watching over her parents and children, and she returns to her murder throughout, each time with more detail, some pretty horrible. I can't do this book enough justice, but one of my favourites of the year so far! Stunning.
On the surface, this is the story of the moment her life is violently extinguished – a moment that will never end, not ever – but it is also about the time before, and about the lives that carry on afterwards. It’s about her children, her parents, her childhood of neglect, her volatile adolescence, and the chain of choices, tragedies and accidents that lead her to a life on the streets and take her into the wrong crowd, the wrong places and, finally, the wrong car with the wrong person.
This book was heartrending, dark, bleak and it was disturbing but I LOVED it. The writing was just beautiful and very moving. Inni was a heroin addict but there was much more to her. Inni tells the reader her story, jumping between her childhood, adulthood, and the present when she is dead and watching over her parents and children, and she returns to her murder throughout, each time with more detail, some pretty horrible. I can't do this book enough justice, but one of my favourites of the year so far! Stunning.