Ice Palace (Young Puffin)

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This novel reads like a long form poem as there is so much below the surface and the actual words. It is filled with symbols and metaphors that are very direct to the plot and characters and open up a much broader understanding of Siss and her tribulations. While the prose is swift and the novel is short, you would do well to slow down and really examine what Vesaas has written much as you would do with any poem. Without giving anything away, the ice palace found in the novel can be viewed on many different levels; from a symbol of several of the characters, as death, or even as the novel itself. I don’t want to go into it as not to provide spoilers but after reading this I felt cheated that I didn’t read this for a class and didn’t have an essay to formulate as I had so much to say about all of Vesaas’ hidden messages. While you might know Zillertal better for its winter sports, the world famous ski resorts of Mayrhofen in the Zillertal 3000 ski area, for example, it’s great to visit in summer as well.

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Despite the artificiality of it there's not a false note to it, as Vesaas uses the natural -- the crisp, clear cold, the glassy ice, the play of light, the powerful sounds -- and never needs spell out what unnaturalness happened to Unn. The Hintertux Glacier lives in Zillertal, in Tirol, a beautiful playground of a region rich in alpine landscapes, refreshing spas, hearty cuisine and plenty of hiking routes.

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A profound encapsulation of time, its passing, couched as a read for preteen girls, versed in the plain-speak of short sentenced nordic prose. Hmm. Sex is buried deep at the bottom of this story: the girls are still innocents, only vaguely sensing that there is much that is still beyond their comprehension -- and that is still unspeakable -- and The Ice Palace is also about that attempt to preserve (in pure ice ...) childish innocence.

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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. The Ice Palace is a fantastic story about Ivan's land, a land where children are taken by 'Starjik' the wizard. The story begins with Ivan, a brave young boy, who heads into the forest to find his missing brother. On his journey he is faced with an array of events. In the end Ivan warmed Starjik's heart and all of the missing children returned home. I am already looking to see if we can book to return next year because we simply loved it just that much. Other Things to do in ZillertalThe popular girl is devastated by the disappearance of the other girl and essentially takes on her personality as a form of grieving. She abandons her old friends and stands against the wall at recess. Her teacher, her parents and the deceased girl’s aunt all try in various ways to help her out of this depression: a kind of emotional ice palace. 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. The way the children treat each other is, in particular, well-captured, the fumbling efforts and small gestures and big meanings and sudden about-faces effortlessly woven into the story.

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Trata muchos temas, pero sobre todo se centra en el duelo, en la pérdida que ahoga, la negación a aceptar lo sucedido y el valor de las promesas dichas. Explora con brillantez los sentimientos de la protagonista: el temor de fallar, de no permitir el paso al olvido y la incapacidad de seguir adelante sin esa persona. Relata un encuentro entre almas gemelas que se ven unidas por una extraña pero sincera conexión que deriva en una amistad inolvidable. The simple, repetitive language of the novel underscores this -- as it does the sense of the unsayable. Siss insists on being part of it -- and as someone who talked to Unn so recently they keep asking her whether or not Unn might have said something to indicate where she went, or why. Learn more about the Moonbikes by watching this video on Summer in Austria, at around the two minute mark.Read it - Examine the ice palace on the cover of the book and the picture of a girl. Use your imagination and think of imagery and symbolism, snow, ice, water, new seasons, mental trauma, the mirror that reveals all, two eleven year old girls, an outsider and the other the leader of a group at school. The catalyst is the ice palace. 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. Like the other children Siss is curious about the new girl, and she feels a sort of connexion to her. It takes courage and experience to take the limb, or aortic chamber, and snap it off, knowing the shards of ice will splinter and wound. Knowing, each time you try to wiggle that finger or listen to the incomplete thud of your heartbeat, you will painfully remember what is missing. And she didn't say a word about hiding." The Ice Palace is full of what wasn't said, and especially of Siss reacting to and dealing with what remains unspoken.

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Doris Lessing was quite right when she said "How simple this novel is. How subtle. How strong. How unlike any other. It is unique. It is unforgettable. It is extraordinary."

A wonderfully cathartic read for anyone who, like me, has been forced to sit through Frozen one too many times. Like a bleak Scandi rewrite, this also features a lonely girl who makes her way to a magical palace of ice in the wilderness, except that here, instead of belting out a jaunty power-ballad, she succumbs satisfyingly to hypothermia. What's that, Elsa? Oh, the cold does bother you, after all? Well, maybe you should have thought of that before you stripped down to a minidress and started harmonising.