Ice Palace (Young Puffin)

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Now first things first. There is a recurring theme in Vesaas's book about outsiders that appear in people's lives, causing mental, emotional, psychological turbulence. Many of his stories depict the struggle to restore things in their previous state of normalcy. When four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking glass, shine into each other, words become redundant. A disturbing meeting, charged with powerful silences and unsaid secrets, unites the girls beyond humane nature in an unbreakable bond, frozen in time.

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No doubt this is a beautiful little story, told in a nice simple prose, but it didn't resonate as strongly with me as it clearly did with a lot of other readers. I found The Birds to be the better of the two novels I've read. Both girls pass a restless night and Unn decides, the following morning, that she can't quite face Siss that day, and makes a plan to go down to see the rumored spectacle of the ice palace, knowing that she'll have the solitude she needs to clear her mind. . .I read for a bit with a shoulder shrug but then I heard the words spoken out loud. Strange, it sounded much like my voice. Not my aloud but my inner voice. Swept suddenly along not an ice floe to grab onto I was within the story. Not only did the 10 cm gap expand into a crevasse below but it also stretched sideways, filling cavern after cavern with icy artwork and rivers encased by ice. At the last time of visiting, in the early summer of 2022, excavations were ongoing with no sign of slowing down. Vesaas’ book is a rare achievement. I have no feeling to stand up and cheer as I do when I read something extraordinary-the more I write this review the more I understand how extraordinary, The Ice Palace, is. The short simple style unfolding the tale feels light? Slight? But no, that is what sets this apart It is only after living through it that seeping through the simplicity is something explosive and at the core of meaning, at the core of otherness, mortality, the unrelenting indifferent passage of time.

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View of the palace is absolutely stunning. Shiny, cold and inaccessible and yet so tempting. Dainty, lace decorating, slender columns, openwork lace. Chambers sparkling with colors, white, blue, green. Somewhere in the distance a waterfall roars and in the icy walls - trapped eye of the sun. Come in, Unn. Get some rest. I say, there is something that Vesaas definitely missed. You see, ice can also be seen as a prism to break white light up into the colours of the rainbow. Delve into this author's mind. Meet an author who lived in an isolated village in Telemark, a mountainous region in southern Norway, who loved the countryside so much, he stayed there until his death. Even now people visit the farm where Vesaas lived.The kills count may be one more or less than 22. A few times when playing this level, I encountered only 3 tigers in the area near the Silver Dragon, rather than 4. Also, for some reason, killing the guardian boss with grenades can result in its counting as 2 kills. We know the story is focused on two 11-year-old girls before we begin reading. One girl is new to school. She has just moved to the village to live with her aunt after the death of her unmarried mother. She shuns interaction with her schoolmates, even standing by herself along a wall at recess.

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Ivan travels by day and tries to sleep in hollowed out snow drifts at night but this when Starjik is at his strongest and again and again tries to stop Ivan from reaching his home The Ice Palace. When Ivan and Starjik do meet face to face there is a show down, old and bitter man against the young and loving boy. Vesaas might have viewed life as gossamer of renewed promises but never without one; much like the Ice Palace that stood subdued in summer, embracing dissolution but tirelessly raising its head again in winter without exception. Vesaas must have experienced the tingling calmness that a battered palm transfers upon touching a healthy skin; much like how a tumultuous, windy evening of tight-lipped conversation can be the analgesic for months of revitalizing discoveries. Vesaas must have witnessed a beautiful painting becoming priceless with a careless but feisty stroke of brush; much like the reinstating zephyr of souls, that with or without their presence, turn daily life, aromatic. T)he cool, lucid language of Elizabeth Rokkan's English version allows the complex edifice of Vesaas's symbolism to shine out from the prose with a clarity, even a pragmatism, that is both startling and profound. (...) The Ice Palace is an elegant poetic fable that expresses through its unique language an instinctive, rather than an intellectual, human connection with questions of isolation and schism. Its modernist preoccupations are profoundly disquieting, and yet it comforts the reader because, paradoxically, its message connects us. Our isolation is what we have in common, and the existential questions posed by Vesaas are, by definition, the province of everyone; this is a triumphant study in the reality of human anguish." - Matthew Bradley, Times Literary Supplement Alight at one of the lower cable car stations to follow the hiking routes on the mountains and to avoid the snow and ice. Children’s PlaygroundTarjei Versaas was a runner up for the 1964 Nobel Prize for his work on this hauntingly beautiful novel. When I think of an ice palace, the first thing that comes to mind is Elsa's creation in the Disney version of Hans Christen Andersen's Elsa the Snow Queen. Elsa's construction designed as a boundary between herself and the world, and Versaas' ice palace is similar both physically and emotionally. His prose in describing the ice is chilling yet full of beauty, which is the image I see with the untarnished snow on the ground before me. I had never read one of Versaas' novels before, and The Ice Palace is a poignant introduction to his work, which also includes the 1952 award winning The Winds. An ode to Norwegian nature and adolescent friendship, Versaas' work is one that will stay with me for a long while. A story told through the eyes of an eleven year old girl and the guilt and trauma seemingly small events bring with them. Rich in metaphors and suggestions, this book left me rather cold So under a mental stress Siss gives a vow: “I promise to think about no one but you. To think about everything I know about you. To think about you at home and at school and on the way to school. To think about you all day long, and if I wake up at night.” Yet this simple story has touched me deeply with its eerie beauty, its sadness and especially with the things left unsaid, unexplained: the silences, the unfinished gestures, the loneliness, the indifference and the mystery of winter landscape to the incursions of the human intruders upon its domain.

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There's a stunning erotic charge to the narrative here, too, as the small body squeezes through the wet fissures as Unn makes her way deeper and deeper into this glassy labyrinth: "now she managed it, slender and supple as she was, when she pushed hard enough", etc. No one can witness the fall of the ice palace. It takes place at night, after all the children are in bed.” see further in Reidar Kjær’s article “Look to Norway? Gay Issues and Mental Health Across the Atlantic Ocean” included in The Mental Health Professions and Homosexuality: International Perspectives, CRC Press, 2003 p. 59). Alternatively, head for one of these safe spots: The depression in the corner near the ladder, the ledge at the base of the ice structure where you climbed up earlier, or inside the building where you found the Jade Dragon. The guardian can't reach Lara in any of these locations, so you can take your time and shoot him with pistols. When the Guardian falls, the level ends. ( screenshots)Unn is the newcomer in Siss's school, an orphaned girl that grew up with her single mother, never met a father, and after her mother's death came to stay with her spinster Auntie. Unn insists on distancing herself from the others and yet there is an obvious attraction between her and her schoolmate, Siss: It's a first play date for the new friends, and when Siss finally arrives at Unn's cottage, it's clear that the girls have an unusual attraction for one another. Their time together is sensual and intimate, despite their young ages and their new acquaintance, but it is cut short by Siss, who feels suddenly overwhelmed by their new relationship and Unn's mysterious hints. The children are remarkably convincing as characters (and unlike most found in fiction, where the temptation to make them too precocious or cute seems almost impossible for authors to resist).