Bostrom Knausgard Linda: Dobrodošli u Ameriku

Name: Dobrodošli u Ameriku
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Author: Bostrom Knausgard Linda

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Author: Bostrom Knausgard Linda
Publisher: Naklada Ljevak d.o.o.
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Condition: Odlično
Code: 79323

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Dobrodošli u Ameriku

Bostrom Knausgard Linda

Summary

Linda Bostrom Knausgard: Welcome to America

This short novel nominated for the prestigious August Literary Award takes place in an apartment in Stockholm, where the girl Ellen, who refuses to speak, lives with her angry and frustrated brother and a distant and narcissistic mother.

In the novel Welcome to America we meet a family on the verge of collapse. Eleven-year-old Ellen stopped talking, confronting her dysfunctional family with an extreme and painful version of refusal to communicate. One day after returning from school, the girl sees her deceased father sitting on her bed. Ellen is convinced that she killed her father because she kept praying for his death. Ellen's mentally ill father was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for some time and it is possible that he tried to kill the family with gas before that. Ellen's brother is angry and frustrated, and her mother is distant and narcissistic. In this context, Ellen's silence represents a protective armor against growing up and the adults she associates with pain. "We are a bright family," her mother repeats for the umpteenth time, but the girl's blackness seeps under her bedroom door and fills the entire house. Restraint and ambiguity prevail in the text, whether it is about the violence that Ellen suffered or the truth of her claims.

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