whale hunters - be fooled by the title and capture the author, Edith Szałek - wielorybnikowi that the fish uses words and imagination. With its original przenośniom stops the reader in the land of fjords, surrounded by rocks and the cool winds of Scandinavia.
"Whale Hunters" is a timeless book, telling about the fate of women: grandmother, mother, aunts and daughters. Each in its own way has been struggling with a similar problem, linking them through the dedication and compassion. They are different and how similar to each other. Looking for happiness at the side of the men who made the painful breach of their personality. Reading this novel you will see how easy it is to identify with any character. Getting to know the chapters of touch the past and present, connecting to the World's Flora.
Flora - the very name of the heroine gives a mysterious charm of nature. Flora, perfectly blended into the landscape of the island on which the novel takes place, is like a collection of plants growing in the past in this area. It is a combination of geological periods, their remains, fossils and imprints on them zostawionych.
After his father's death touches the bottom, in niepojmowanym hounded by other misfortune and decides to slip out of frame accuracy. Peering into themselves resurrecting power. She finds the Captain, who becomes the love. Love for herself. Fortunately, for which consciously deserves a dream come true, almost material projection born of longing through the affinity of souls, playing the same notes. Fell in love with the Captain at the time, which she loved herself. Talking with him, getting a better understanding of its nature. When she began sentence, he could finish it, and everything made sense and was whole.
This friend of a tired mind is also like a father, and his nature is very close to her. Understanding justifies his conduct and that's why he could not live in the real world around them.
Flora has created a space filled with a pure desire to love and be loved. During the lonely meditations shrunk to the size of a breeze and closed within a wooden cradle. A lot of time spent on the boat, thinking about the past. Delighted with it, claiming that it could live like suspended somewhere between sepia, cotton stockings and carmine lipstick.
on walks, Flora came across an older man, whom she called father of the island. Man gave the impression of a man who knows all the secrets, especially those scary. He avoided people and zagadnięty reflect only casually. The further you penetrate into the world of Flora, which is not afraid to fight for love, the more the father Islands becomes talkative. Once he admits that being a whaler for a short time he learned something very important. He understood that sometimes you have to let go to gain something else . In this way, caught a whale without killing him and giving him freedom.
Case hunt is the theme of the novel. The aim is to raise awareness of the reader that each of us is a whaler life.
"Whale Hunters" is a book that has greatly appealed to me. After reading it I felt wanting. So I returned to the selected chapters, searching for answers to understatement, with whom, and so remained. Almost never to me it does not happen. In this case, I know that sometimes I still flip through pages of the novel, looking for something between the lines. Philosophical considerations, in which the author introduces us to make heroes absorbed thought to be able to spin later reflections on them.
Captain Is there really? Who is Burmese, and laughing a sheep? What do Anna going to the chair? As heroes human subjects whose judgment and religion to cope with the life of a whale? Armed with a harpoon, which gives us the knowledge of those days - read alone.
Title: Whale Hunters
Author: Edith Szałek
Publisher: Oxford University Press lamplighter
Release Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-83-60000 - 44-1 Number of pages: 184
note about the author:
Edith Szałek (b. 1974). Sociologist, writer, photographer. In 2005, won the competition for the Literary Journal "The Day after day" organized by the magazine "The Mirror". Over the next two years she wrote for the magazine feature articles, "The town near the sea." Szałek debut book is a "dream green eyes" of 2006 (replica). Another book is a collection of short stories, "tenement-house" (Amea) from 2009
In early 2008, Edith Szałek went to Norway. Initially, because of the experience gained in Poland, worked as a commercial director in one of Norwegian companies. Then I decided to to devote himself entirely to the three passions: sociology, pisarstwu and photography. The first of these implements bergeńskim working in the Emergency Centre for Women, which helps experienced traumatic for children from countries around the world. The love for cinema and black-and-white photography is reflected in the company Sokrates'Workshop, which she founded a year ago with his life partner. And writing? At this time is always and everywhere - says Edith. - Most, however, at dawn, when the Norwegian fjords have stalled as cats, magpies scour the garbage cans, and the old clock strikes for the early hour.
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whale hunters - be fooled by the title and capture the author, Edith Szałek - wielorybnikowi that the fish uses words and imagination. With its original przenośniom stops the reader in the land of fjords, surrounded by rocks and the cool winds of Scandinavia. 
