The Silence of Falling Snow by Kristjana Gunnars (Paperback Book)
Coach House Books
Diamond SnowAuthor(s): Kristjana Gunnars\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Coach House Books, Canada\nImprint: Coach House Books\nISBN-13: 9781552455081, 978-1552455081\nSynopsis\nFrom an innovator of autofiction comes a meditation on grief, care, Buddhism, and artmaking.\n\n'This is a story. It is a story about someone accompanying another to the last gate.'\n\nYears ago, Kristjana Gunnars took her husband back to his home in Oslo to die. Through the dark, cold days, she tends to his needs as she feels her own self disintegrating. Later, as she looks back to this slow departure of the man she loved, she weaves together threads from her own life, reflections on the thoughts of Gautama Buddha, discussions of Renaissance art, and considerations of contemporary artists.\n\nEngaging with thinkers as varied as Ingmar Bergman and Jacques Derrida, Henry David Thoreau, and Ursula K. Le Guin, Gunnars one of the earliest practitioners of \""autofiction\"" crafts a new kind of hybrid text, with ele.
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