Title: Moody and atmospheric
Product review: I can't say that I've ever seen an Ingmar Bergman film, but I've often heard them described as cold and sterile, bleak and despairing. If those words truly describe Bergman's style, then we can safely say that his daughter successfully captured on page what her parents captured before her on film.Our narrator, Karin, tells her family's story in a bluntly honest way. Hardships are neither embellished nor glossed over; they are what they are. Ullman's prose is spare and almost harsh, like the landscape of her heritage. You don't feel as though you're entering her world as you read, it's more as though it's being shown to you from a distance. This makes for a very absorbing read, though not necessarily an enjoyable one. The story told in BEFORE YOU SLEEP story is not happy, nor terribly plot driven, but if you're looking more for atmosphere than story, you won't go wrong reading it.
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