Tarjei Vesaas
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The Ice Palace: Tarjei Vesaas’s Peculiar Parable on Grief

The Ice Palace first crossed my path in 2023, and I was instantly reminded of it after reading Anna Kavan’s Ice a year ago. This Norwegian novel was absent from my American libraries, but fortuitously, I was able to find it after moving to the UK. In The Ice Palace, we meet Sissi, a young Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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