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Title: Down Fall by Per Olov Enquist, Anna Paterson ISBN: 070430130X Publisher: Quartet Books Ltd Pub. Date: February, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.94

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: A compact, poetic exploration of what it means to be human.
Comment: Enquist's obsessive meditation on the task of living, on the redemptive power of acceptance and forgiveness, and on the need to search for the voice we deny ourselves and others when we hide our deformities away, builds its themes through repeated juxtapositions of its narrative strands: a freak with two heads, a couple grieving their twice-lost child, and the narrator's longing for the father he never knew.

Despite its sometimes difficult subject matter, the book sustains a tone of hope and renewal. Its poetic language, its sensitive depiction of the process by which love rescues the outcast, and-- above all-- Enquist's deft touch with his imagery and his ideas, all give this book a magic which transcends its apparently depressing elements.