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Girl
by Edna O'Brien
Despite not shying away from the book's truly nightmarish subject, O'Brien manages to find a respectful, honest and even occasionally beautiful way of telling the girl's story.
The focus of the narration is not only on the cruelty that the kidnapped girls have to endure, but also on the failure of their family and society to find a fitting or humane response to these experiences.
O'Brien uses a technique of seeming to describe an actual nightmare that unnoticably developps into a lived experience to capture the horror of the story. This seemed like an unfamiliar and absolutely fitting literary device to me.
Overall, a harrowing but necessary and rewarding read.
The focus of the narration is not only on the cruelty that the kidnapped girls have to endure, but also on the failure of their family and society to find a fitting or humane response to these experiences.
O'Brien uses a technique of seeming to describe an actual nightmare that unnoticably developps into a lived experience to capture the horror of the story. This seemed like an unfamiliar and absolutely fitting literary device to me.
Overall, a harrowing but necessary and rewarding read.