The Price of Water in Finistere

by Bodil Malmsten

Book Overview

'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843431645
• ISBN13: 9781843431640
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The Price of Water in Finistere

A most delightful book. Arrived in good condition and in a timely fashion. Thanks.

If one is good, two is better

It must be pretty good, my wife liked it so much she got a couple more for friends.

cultivating one's garden

The price of water in Finistere is a book with dimensions from here to paradise. It can be read or eaten, or both. I have read it as a manifest for breaking up, as an inspirig script for gardening, as an historical book and what not. Bodil Malmsten has the gift of putting a glimpse of eternity in the everyday life. The language itself is a glimpse of eternity - the way she spellbounds the reader by using no other word but that which is just perfect. Her way of making a sentence by putting together the words you never thought you would see in the same context simply makes every second of reading an adventure. Bodil M invites the reader into her private room without getting sentimental. She will laugh with you, cry with you - she even yells at you but never without blaming herself first and foremost. This is a book about what it is to be human, but without the scholarcrap. Read and proceed, cultivate your garden with The price of water in Finistere.

A welcome new voice to these shores

This is a lovely piece of work. A wise and lively book filled with both verve and insight. The writer is a mature woman with an idiosyncratic ?lan who retains a girlish vivacity and whimsy. Her insights and observations are both fine and fun, serious and serendipitous. She tells about her two homes; the one she hails, and the one where she's staked a new claim -- one that made her who she is, and the other she is making her own. Her mounting passion for gardening and how she recounts her progress -- or lack thereof -- offers a full dollop of wonderful lagniappe. Her politics are honestly rendered; she is not out to preach or proselytize, they are just part and parcel of all her other wherewithal.