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Title: You'll love it or you'll hate it
Review: This is one of those books that requires you to sink into it, giving it time and attention. You'll be rewarded with immersion in a time and place completely different from ours. You'll feel the cold and smell the smells. It is of no use to be judgmental about Bjartur -- he lives in circumstances so different from ours and his yen to be independent is foreign to our "welfare state" society. In Bjartur's time to fail and lose all was catastrophic -- no safety net in his bleak time and place.I agree with those below -- don't read the introduction. Why don't they make an essay that gives the entire plot away into an Afterword? Why do they think we are reading a novel?
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