Room of consolation
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Room of consolation
14.99 €
11.99 €
All stories in the world are a little sad. But in those where there is winter, the heroes grow older and magic always happens.
"The Room of Comfort" is a fairy tale story, a quiet corner where you can wait out terrible times. Two girls lock themselves in an apartment in an attempt to fence themselves off from the outside world. Alya is depressed, and her sister consoles her with fairy tales that she makes up on the fly. Together they remember their childhood at the dacha, are afraid to call Mom, and learn Swedish. They avoid talking about trauma, although its ghost hangs in the room. The reader grabs at hints: an eraser during a school break, chalk lines on the asphalt, raspberries from a bush on a walk with Grandpa. Sooner or later, Alya will tame her jumping memories and learn to live on. And we, along with her.
"Two heroines - one room, one story, one life, one voice. Searching for oneself in a world where words have no real life, where words can only occupy space and deceive. Do I exist in a world where words do not belong to me?
Ellie returns to Kansas, but there is no home and never was. Wendy wakes up and realizes that Neverland is nothing but a dream.
Ruth reinvents language. She exists"
Olga Breininger, writer, literary anthropologist
"The Room of Comfort" is a fairy tale story, a quiet corner where you can wait out terrible times. Two girls lock themselves in an apartment in an attempt to fence themselves off from the outside world. Alya is depressed, and her sister consoles her with fairy tales that she makes up on the fly. Together they remember their childhood at the dacha, are afraid to call Mom, and learn Swedish. They avoid talking about trauma, although its ghost hangs in the room. The reader grabs at hints: an eraser during a school break, chalk lines on the asphalt, raspberries from a bush on a walk with Grandpa. Sooner or later, Alya will tame her jumping memories and learn to live on. And we, along with her.
"Two heroines - one room, one story, one life, one voice. Searching for oneself in a world where words have no real life, where words can only occupy space and deceive. Do I exist in a world where words do not belong to me?
Ellie returns to Kansas, but there is no home and never was. Wendy wakes up and realizes that Neverland is nothing but a dream.
Ruth reinvents language. She exists"
Olga Breininger, writer, literary anthropologist
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- All books in the series "It makes sense"