”She writes in the invisible language”, it has been said about the Persian-Swedish poet, and the latest akademiledamoten, Jila Elevated. Almost in the same way allow themselves to Per Nilsson’s literary texts to be described, those specifically addressed to young readers. Less is more defines Nilsson’s authorship. On a nilssonskt way to tell sparse the lyrics so much more than what the individual words, and sentences, represent.
written a series of important and often highly touching ungromaner that revolves around love, loneliness, longing and the odd and invisible, it harbours a secret, an unspoken permission, the mysteries around which both the book’s characters as the reader, sniffing around. A search that in turn triggers interest and curiosity. For just as in Jila Elevated ends, we never have to take it where we never really get hold of. That which exists, but is difficult to put into words.
Per Nilsson’s latest novel ”As the sparrow ” as the eagle”, is dense of the ”invisible language”, as well as of the evasive secret of the story’s central character ”to Ask”. Who is the hen? And who is really charismatic and quite dangerous Enneka that exerts such a magnetic appeal on the Ask? Enneka who are hurt by life but – perhaps precisely because of this – challenge everything and on the surface seems cocky, strong and impregnable.
high like an eagle ”alone up there in the sky”. Unreachable for everything and everyone. Especially for those who, like Ask defines itself as a sparrow; a small, grey and oh so ordinary in the middle of the pack. Enneka that seems shit in all the rules, which hangs in the company of them Ask enough to want to, but dare not, come close. For just as it is spoken about in the story, like the moth senseless operation against the deadly hot lamp, we are looking for people us, however ineptly, against the life-threatening.
It is precisely here, in the intersection between what we dare and what we actually want, as Per Nilsson adds focus. And Pray that we are not even in the novel’s final will, fully into life, pulled constantly between these poles.
”As the sparrow ” as the eagle” highlights the story of two to the outer of very different young people who, against all odds, find one of them life-changing, mutual, and trusting presence. Per Nilsson describes both the poetic and drastically fun a existence that is far more complicated than we want to realize that it can be already at the high school. Important.
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