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Article: Merete Pryds Helle. Solsiden.(Book Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- June 22, 2002
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Copenhagen. Rosinante. 2001. 118 pages, ill. 199 kr. ISBN 87-621-0278-8
MERETE PRYDS HELLE'S short novel, Solsiden (Sunny side), concerns a very bizarre, very surprising journey through life and afterlife by a recently deceased woman, Gedske, a thirty-something wife with two children. Or--alternatively--the narrative is all part of an elaborate, very extensive dream (or daydream) from which Gedske awakens to resume a prosaic life--or life in the hereafter--filled with family responsibilities, quiet joys and duties. Whatever Solsiden may be---description of living death or exploration of a fantasy and nightmare dream world--the work interweaves Gedske's past life ...