Royal love drama, lost corpses and war – here are seven books you should read at Easter
Nothing gives so much of an Easter mood as curling up under a blanket, finding an Easter egg full of Quick Lunch and a good book. Do not know what to read? Here are seven tips!
Sort the mess by John Dickson Carr
At Easter, it’s a bit of a good mystery. My favorite crime story is classic Sort the mess by John Dickson Carr. Here is a gift and a missing corpse among the main ingredients. The atmosphere is eerie. And thrillers to the last page.
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Several of the really great classics in world literature are about the question “who killed who”. Rarely are these books marked as crime stories on the cover, but they can still lend themselves well as Easter crime stories.
Take, for example, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The King of Denmark has recently died. His son, Hamlet, is in despair. A figure appears to him and claims to be the ghost of his father. The ghost says that it was Hamlet’s uncle and stepfather, Claudius, who took the life of the King.
Hamlet decides to avenge the murder of his father. But can he really trust the ghost to speak the truth?
Luke, the Bible was easy to read
If you need a repetition of the original Easter message The “Easy to Read” edition of the Gospel of Luke is perfect. It is exactly the same text as before, but with a clear and distinct language.
Omsetjinga came – in both Nynorsk and Bokmål – in 2020 at Verbum publishing house. You will also find the text on the Bible Society’s website.
The most central Easter texts are collected her.
You by Håvard J. Nilsen
Sure you want to read fiction about religion is the novel You by Håvard J. Nilsen a good choice. The novel was published in 2020 by Flamme Forlag.
The main characters are Sigurd. He grew up in the Pentecostal movement. No one has moved to Trondheim to study. It must be the chance to get rid of Christianity that Sigrud experiences is a burden. But as he himself states in the book: “To believe is to continually stop believing, but not succeed, because you have set something.”
Tomorrow will be better by Karoline Stjernfelt
Do you like intrigue and love drama? Do you think fashion was best in the 18th century? In that case, you should check out the Danish cartoon series Tomorrow will be better. He was created by Karoline Stjernfelt and is about the power elite in Denmark-Norway during Christian VII’s reign.
The internal battles on Christiansborg were many. And the king himself was completely unfit to rent a land. Here are the scandals in a row!
Tomorrow will be better is planned as a trilogy. So far, the first two bands have been released.
The play and the lightning by Tarjei Vesaas
Writing poems after the events in Auschwitz is barbaric, said the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno. He was obviously wrong!
It is when the world is in crisis that literature becomes scarce. When war broke out in Ukraine, I started collecting poems The play and the lightning by Tarjei Vesaas. Here you will find several poems that Vesaas wrote as a reaction to some of the terrible things that happened to her during the Second World War.
The language is clear and sober. The senses become sharper. One never feels so present in the world as when one reads Vesaas’ poems.
Can not bear or lack the time to read the whole book? Take whatever time you have to read the poem Rain in Hiroshima. I promise, it’s amazing!
Slagteri-Fem by Kurt Vonnegut
Writing funny about war and mass murder can be impossible. But Kurt Vonnegut did it.
He himself was an American soldier during the Second World War. As a prisoner of war, he experienced the bombing of the German city of Dresden. An allied attack that killed over 20,000 people, most of them civilians. Vonnegut survives by hiding three floors underground in a slaughterhouse.
That decades later, Kurt Vonnegut decides to get some of his experiences from the bombing of Dresden down on paper. The result was the novel Slagteri-Femor Slaughterhouse-5 as he is called in Norwegian.
The book is a lie and absurd throughout. But the message is crystal clear: war is not fun.
Slagteri-Fem is a single long middle finger against anything that is or is reminiscent of war. The book should be a must-read.
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Updated: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 09.17