Norma
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- $35.99
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- $35.99
Publisher Description
Toget kom susende ind. Mor smed skoene og håndtasken ind under bænken, så var hun borte.
Det er noget særligt ved Norma. Først da hun mister sin mor, opdager hun hvor farlig verden er for sådan nogle som henne – og hvor langt visse folk er villige til at gå for at få fat i det, hun har.
Med Norma har Sofi Oksanen begået en genreblandende og original spændingsroman, et mørkt familiedrama med fantastiske og politiske undertoner.
Anmelderne skrev:
"Oksanen skildrer isnende godt sociale magtspil, hvor en nådesløs selvkontrol, specielt for kvinder, er forudsætningen for at kunne styre eget liv. Overlader kvinden kontrollen til andre, bliver hun udnyttet. Bogen viser, hvordan drømmene knytter sig til udseende, forbrug og mode" - Kaleva
"Med Norma tilbyder Sofi Oksanen læserne noget helt nyt." - Aamulehti
"Oksanen skriver strålende. Teksten er rytmisk, hun leger med sætningerne og skaber stærke sproglige billeder" - Kainuun Sanomat
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At the center of Oksanen's ambitious contemporary fantasy novel is the strange hair of a woman named Norma. It grows peculiarly quickly and sometimes uncontrollably, moves in ways that reflect Norma's emotions, and grants her far-ranging abilities to detect other people's physical and mental states. Norma's mother, Anita, spent her life guarding Norma from the world; the two of them have apartments in the same building in Helsinki and are each other's sole confidants. When Anita dies in an apparent suicide, Norma needs to understand her death and begins investigating it even as she is suddenly overwhelmed by the weight of everything her mother kept away from her. Oksanen (When the Doves Disappeared) creates intricate characters and imagery, and the hair plays well as a multifaceted metaphor for various forms of the patriarchal exploitation of female bodies. However, the characters are insufficiently three-dimensional for the conceit to read as more than a metaphor, albeit a well-chosen one.
