“Kvinnolivet in focus”
“Jenny Högström view the Caroline Albertine Minors Blessings”
“the Mood in the introductory story in the Danish Caroline Albertine Minors, praised the Blessings are muffled and restrained. A daughter travels to a small village in the south of France to visit his aged father, who, understand, the reader soon, have had a stroke. The suites are one-sided paralysis. But the reader will also understand that he has long been paralyzed in relation to his daughter. Absent.”
“What exactly are her motives for getting there? We do not know. What she feels ahead of the meeting, before his death, before his own life? We do not know either. The Caroline Albertine Minor depicting individual scenes: when the father tipping over in the garden with his walker and scrapes on the chin. “
“When the daughter starts to cry, alone in the kitchen. When she drinks a few beers and is with a great presenter. Things happen thick and fast and klipptekniken is just, as well as miljöbeskrivningarna. Here is the isbergsteknik that prevails.”
“freeware it will be is the daughter also a bit paralyzed. She appears to be in a kind of gap in life. This she has in common with the other female protagonists in the seven short stories. “
“In a nyckelberättelse, as depicted from various perspectives, in various short stories, a young woman who is an au pair in Australia hangs in a fig tree: we meet her mother, the mother’s friend, a childhood friend, her self. A young woman’s lover has just died, at the same time, she lives with his colleague, with whom she has a small child.”
“you the autobiographical novel Sorrow’s garden has a young woman’s lover received a concussion and lost both memory and personality. A woman and her little children have suddenly been left by the father of the child. Himself says the author in an interview that she laborerar with different shades of sadness. “
“It makes me think a part of Rachel Cusks phenomenal Transit, in relation to what the crisis does to a man. It creates a certain distance to the world, but made her at once more open and vulnerable. More boundless. The woman who had left telling her tragic story for just anyone. The young mother in the titelnovellen Blessings to seek out a priest. The family of the to självmördaren is sexually acting out. The young woman whose boyfriend has become personlighetsförändrad is furious. And feel ashamed. “
“nKrisen also creates a heightened perception which at times breaks through in the short stories and get it to defraud: ”It was only a matter of time, that I understood, and everything in me was on his guard. I had accidentally ran out in the open, after a long time have found me in the darkness between the trunks of trees and shrubs.” “
“at the same time, the life. Common tasks, common concerns. Take care of a child. Friendship. Dinners. Something that I like very much is that the sexuality of these women (with the exception of the slightly older woman whose daughter is dead) is strong and present and it seems as natural as eating or sleeping. And that it is portrayed as factual. “
“nVälsignelser has been nominated for the Nordic council literature prize in 2018. In Johanne Lykke Holm’s seemingly non-existent – and therefore very successful – the translation may Caroline Albertine Minor world, kvinnolivet and grief to emerge with new clarity. “
“Caroline Albertine Minor”
“Trans. Johanne Lykke Holm”
“Wahlström & Widstrand”
