Pidän siitä tunteesta kun ei osaa odottaa kirjalta mitään edes siitä mistä se kertoo, mutta pikkuhiljaa kirjan maailma avautuu.Īlkukappale on erityisen hämmentävä, sitten tarina paljastuu: ollaan lähihistoriassa, Englannin metsissä, elävöittämässä esihistoriallista aikaa. What comes next but human sacrifice?Ī story at once mythic and strikingly timely, Sarah Moss's Ghost Wall urges us to wonder how far we have come from the "primitive minds" of our ancestors.Įn tiedä miksi tämä kirja oli varauslistallani, kuka sitä oli sinne suositellut, mutta onneksi oli ja onneksi luin. When the group builds one of their own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. Mixing with the students, Silvie begins to see, hear, and imagine another kind of life, one that might include going to university, traveling beyond England, choosing her own clothes and food, speaking her mind. He has raised her on stories of early man, taken her to witness rare artifacts, recounted time and again their rituals and beliefs-particularly their sacrifices to the bog. The students are fulfilling their coursework Silvie's father is fulfilling his lifelong obsession. They are surrounded by forests of birch and rowan they make stew from foraged roots and hunted rabbit. The reader will rise along with Silvie, gaining an understanding of her struggles and the overall experience of a compelling story.In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.įor two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. Silvie emerges from her ordeal much like the bog people-transformed. With all the elements of a coming-of-age novel, a thriller, and a love story, a lot is happening in these scant pages. The need to subjugate women is also examined in this haunting book that grabs hold of the reader and won’t let go. Love, and loyalty are explored in this book. Moss captures the complicated feelings of being fifteen through the character, Silvie.
Silvie chaffs under her father’s control, even as she finds herself defending him and getting caught up in her dad and the professor’s most extreme experiment. Silvie doesn’t share her father’s passion, nor, it seems, do many of the college students who are attending the experimental class. They will spend two weeks living like ancient people-Silvie’s father’s dream. North of England, teenage Silvie, and her parents have joined an experimental archeology class.
The Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss is a short, but powerful book.
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