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The Price of Water in Finistere (Paperback)

by Bodil Malmsten (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (2 Feb 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099466678
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099466673
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 324,848 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Lively, enhanting and deeply serious...Abounds in wonderful descriptions of her intimate relationships with plat-life, and in seascapes...Extremely funny' - Guardian. 'Hilarious, heartwarming and movingly honest. This is a book about self-exile and creation that only a poet could write' - Adam Thorpe. 'I loved the comments about English gardening as preposterous, and her ability to conjure so much out of so little without ever leaving her garden...truly wonderful' - Gerard Woodward. 'Lyrical and pithy, full of wry humour, yet weightier than most fat tomes, The Price of Water in Finistere is a book about the past and the state of the world we have created...I adored it' - Lisa Appignanesi.


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"Malmsten’s humour is wry and wise, her attitudes light and liberated, her resilience though and touching."
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you love words..., 24 Mar 2008
I found this book by coincidence. I was captured by Bodil Malmstens love of words, language and her new homeland. I read it in small dozes. I think you have to to be able to really enjoy the carefully selected words, sentences and images.... A great example of good writing.

UG, Denmark
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5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than any other 'my new life in France' book, 12 Aug 2007
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This book was given to me as a present and I just loved it. Bodil is a middle-aged woman who packs her car and moves in disgust from her native Sweden to the very West of France. She writes sparely, like a true poet, but with great humour about gardening, her terrible French and little daily events in her new village, but at heart there is so much more. The book is shot through with outrage at the modern world, the on-going pain of losing her father, her preparations for becoming an old lady and many, many other subjects. If you like the writings of Tove Janson, you will love this. I hope many other works by Bodil will be translated into English.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Claire from Cornwall, 6 Dec 2007
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Bodil Malmsten writes sparingly but with depth. This middle aged lady leaves her home country and finds the place she is meant to be in Finistere in France and qualifies this "In the same way there's a partner for every person there's a place".She describes her garden with love and care as one would a child. There is gentle humour and critical observation throughout. The use of carefully selected language is similar to that of Tove Jansson's adult writing.I have just read this book and intend to read it again as I feel that there is so much more to be discovered.
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