Review: a "big kid" fairy tale
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
This short story is very well told and held me captivated till the end, it is so vivid that it is like you are there and see the events through the eyes of the protagonist.I liked it very much because it has an aura of melancholy and yet it is happy too, it is poignant but never depressing.Silvia, the protagonist, is quite lost in its world of woods and solitude but several unexpected and mysterious things happen and the story moves on very quickly.The whole thing delicately hovers between supernatural, fairy-tale style on the one hand and rational although strange and marvelous on the other.You keep wondering until the end if the little girl is flesh and blood reality or fanciful product of imagination of Silvia.Devin Berglund was able to paint a beautiful and thoughtful picture of the landscape so I read it twice to enjoy all the details.While reading you can almost smell the woods in autumn and feel the cold wind through leaves , and most of all, feel the loneliness of a woman that lost her little daughter and her husband.