Days
Rotevatn, Siv Kristin: Dager
In this book we meet Thea, an elderly woman who does not have long to live. She looks back on her life, reviewing it in sharply focused phases: her childhood perception of the relationship between her parents, the grim years of puberty, her dealings with men and, as a middle-aged woman, her relations with her aged mother.
We get to know an outstanding individual who, in her head-on encounter with the world about her, unreservedly accepts things as they are. Through the medium of precise, near-chilling prose we are made privy to the protagonist's sensitivity to outside impressions and her reflections on life.
Praise for Days:
"A sensational book… Rotevatn has succeeded in painting a portrait of a woman that rings absolutely true"
(Dagbladet)
"A book that grips and holds the reader"
(Dagsavisen)
First published: 2003, Aschehoug Fiction
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