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There is a stripped down quality to Marianne Fredriksson's Inge and Mira, a careful paring away of language, until only the essence of an emotion or thought is left. The novel tells the story of an intense friendship between two very different women, the Inge and Mira of the title: "Each had been allotted her own climate: long, dark winter nights to one, days of burning sunshine to the other. One woman was a sceptic who put her trust in reason; and the other talked intimately with God every day." Swedish Inge is tall, blonde, reserved and Mira is dark and intense, haunted by her memories of abuse and degradation in Pincohet's Chile. Inge's emotional trauma is of the romantic kind, a failed marriage to an alcoholic. The women meet at a garden centre and, after a period of reluctant assessment, they become close. Inge, horrified by Mira's account of her life, decides to help her trace her daughter, one of the many who "disappeared" in the political upheaval; the attempt also reveals some disturbing information about Inge's ex-husband.
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The story is a powerful one. In some instances the bare-bones language works well, the simple sentences shock and provoke: "As a child I played on the banks of river Mapocho and now it was running red with blood. A constant stream of dead bodies came floating along." At other times, Fredriksson's staccato tone, translated from the Scandinavian, seems emotionless, almost clichéd. Consequently, the simplistic quality of the prose often strains to convey the complexity of issues raised in Inge and Mira. --Eithne Farry
Women, friendship, the presence of the past, the search for identity: a powerful, evocative saga by the world bestselling Marianne Fredriksson.
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0753811251
- ISBN 13 9780753811252
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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