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agda's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Acredito que seja o meu livro preferido de realismo fantástico que li até hoje. A forma, mais do que a coisa, me impressionou. Adoro livros que descrevem o contidiano (ainda que o cotidiano de uma guerra) de uma forma que me faça sentir com poesia as motivações, dores e consequências de cada coisa. Um livro belíssimo, que me tocou bastantes.
ana_qq's review against another edition
DNF @60 pág.
É bonito, mas fico cheia de sono de cada vez que pego nele para ler.
É bonito, mas fico cheia de sono de cada vez que pego nele para ler.
savaging's review against another edition
5.0
It's like someone with a mind half Kafka and half Cormac McCarthy, the dreamstates of Doris Lessing, and the ever-loving heart of the mother of everybody lived in the thick of the Mozambiquan civil war, and wrote a book about it.
It's traumatic writing, cracked clear through and showing the other side. War and profiteering and dreams and love, women and animals and monsters. Look: I can't explain this to you, except to say it's a book I read with wide eyes and half-breaths -- maybe I just mean it's an astonishing book. It's all astonishment. How does this exist? How do war and this book coexist on the same world? Somebody else needs to account for it -- I can't.
"After all, I was born at a time when time doesn’t happen. Life, my friends, no longer lets me inside it. I am condemned to perpetual earth, like the whale that gives up the ghost on the beach. If one day I try and live somewhere else, I shall have to carry with me the road that doesn’t let me depart from myself."
It's traumatic writing, cracked clear through and showing the other side. War and profiteering and dreams and love, women and animals and monsters. Look: I can't explain this to you, except to say it's a book I read with wide eyes and half-breaths -- maybe I just mean it's an astonishing book. It's all astonishment. How does this exist? How do war and this book coexist on the same world? Somebody else needs to account for it -- I can't.
"After all, I was born at a time when time doesn’t happen. Life, my friends, no longer lets me inside it. I am condemned to perpetual earth, like the whale that gives up the ghost on the beach. If one day I try and live somewhere else, I shall have to carry with me the road that doesn’t let me depart from myself."
bergenslabben's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
karinlib's review against another edition
4.0
This was a beautiful story of a horrible time in Mozambique. Muidinga and Tuahir (refugees) are walking along a dusty road, trying to find a place to escape the war. They find a burnt out bus, and they are convinced that since the bus was already picked over for anything valuable, they would be safe. They find a box of notebooks-diaries of a young man, whose stories become entangled with the refugees.
sofiareilima's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.25
verabaetas's review against another edition
4.0
O retrato nu e cru de uma guerra que devastou um país e um povo. Uma escrita maravilhosa que nos conduz por uma viagem em busca de uma identidade.
pearloz's review against another edition
3.0
Great premise, but it seemed to peter out about 3/4s of the way through. Frankly, I could've done with a novel exclusively about the old man and the boy making their way through the post-war world.
janlc's review against another edition
slow-paced
1.75
"Søvngængerland" giver et fabulerende og fantaserende billede af borgerkrigen i Mozambique efter uafhængigheden. Det er i hvert fald, hvad jeg tror den handler om, ud fra bagsideteksten.
At der er en krig er sikkert, og landet er også på plads. Og det er efter koloni-tiden.
Måden historien er fortalt på, er med en blanding af mozambiansk åndetro. Det giver en fortællestil markant forskellig fra den vestlige og den fungerede ikke for mig.
Eller rettere... Det blev (for mig) for meget form over indhold.
Bogen har en rammefortælling, hvor en dreng og en mand finder nogle hæfter. I hæfterne er så hovedhistorien fortalt, og vi får den efterhånden som drengen læser højt for manden.
Jeg fandt desværre rammefortællingen relativt uinteressant. Historien i hæfterne havde til gengæld potentiale, men det druknede for mig, i det fabulerende. Det tog alt, alt for lang tid at komme fremad i fortællingen, når der igen skulle tales med en død.
Nogen vil helt sikkert forelske sig i sproget, og så er der noget at komme efter. Andre vil, som mig, kede sig igennem bogen.
At der er en krig er sikkert, og landet er også på plads. Og det er efter koloni-tiden.
Måden historien er fortalt på, er med en blanding af mozambiansk åndetro. Det giver en fortællestil markant forskellig fra den vestlige og den fungerede ikke for mig.
Eller rettere... Det blev (for mig) for meget form over indhold.
Bogen har en rammefortælling, hvor en dreng og en mand finder nogle hæfter. I hæfterne er så hovedhistorien fortalt, og vi får den efterhånden som drengen læser højt for manden.
Jeg fandt desværre rammefortællingen relativt uinteressant. Historien i hæfterne havde til gengæld potentiale, men det druknede for mig, i det fabulerende. Det tog alt, alt for lang tid at komme fremad i fortællingen, når der igen skulle tales med en død.
Nogen vil helt sikkert forelske sig i sproget, og så er der noget at komme efter. Andre vil, som mig, kede sig igennem bogen.