For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has...
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Thanks to this book, I didn't leave my house all day one Saturday.
"Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name" is simply an incredibly well-told, well-conceived story.
The story Ms. Vida has created - of a 29-year-old woman's unexpected journey to north Finland and into her own past - is so quirky and original in its setting and twists, yet completely believable in its main character's superhuman attempt to connect with her matronage and sense of humanity.
This is an artful, powerfully imagined book.
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida
evil_smurfette, January 14, 2007
Thanks to this book, I didn't leave my house all day one Saturday."Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name" is simply an incredibly well-told, well-conceived story.
The story Ms. Vida has created - of a 29-year-old woman's unexpected journey to north Finland and into her own past - is so quirky and original in its setting and twists, yet completely believable in its main character's superhuman attempt to connect with her matronage and sense of humanity.
This is an artful, powerfully imagined book.
(8 of 17 readers found this comment helpful)