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Sjon recommended Fish Can Sing in Books (curated)

 
Fish Can Sing
Fish Can Sing
Halldor Laxness | 2001 | Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy
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"Set in Reykjavík at the turn of the 20th century this novel has a Chaplin-esque quality in its celebration of how the good values of society are to be found among those clinging to its lowest rung. Álfgrímur is an orphan living with an old couple who have opened their small farm to the misfits and the meek. A nearby graveyard becomes the boy’s playground, and it is there he is discovered to have “the pure tone” while singing at funerals of the lost and lonesome. From their gravesides he goes into the world to become a singer. It is my favorite book by Laxness, not least because it is his attempt to understand why someone like himself, born in a town of 10,000 people, found the right melody to transform the stories of a small world into world literature."

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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated In the Darkroom in Books

Jul 28, 2017  
In the Darkroom
In the Darkroom
Susan Faludi | 2016 | Biography, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
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Deeply moving, powerful account of identity
Susan Faludi's autobiographical bestseller juxtaposes feminist theory with the transgender change of her father who seems to reinforce gender stereotypes while attempting to establish her own identity.

Her father's confusion over what she believed to be 'female', at the same time denying an abusive past and surviving the holocaust, highlights the troubles of adopting another identity as a form of escape.

Faludi's attempt to understand her father, however, is deeply moving - trying to process her previous actions with her past and her present is an account that many can relate to. Her passion to find out the enigma that is her father is commendable and there were many times I shed a tear listening to this tale of much sorrow.

It really is a masterpiece of writing and will go down as an important piece of literature for this decade.