“Voli zaron, trenutak u kojem se utope zemaljski zvukovi i okruži je potpuna tišina.”
Vremena se mijenjaju, studenti više nisu onakvi na kakve je Peter navikao cijeli život radeći kao sveučilišni profesor književnosti, njegova žena Rahel, uspješna psihoterapeutkinja, također je drugačija, kao i njihov brak u kojem su već trideset godina. Kada im propadne planirano ljetovanje u planinama, odlaze na farmu gdje je Rahel provodila mnoga ljeta u djetinjstvu. Rahel je u potrazi za spasom njihova braka, popravljanjem obiteljskih odnosa i budućnosti. A Peter? Peter je tu.
Autorica polako razvija priču prikazujući dugogodišnji brak i sve one probleme koje on nosi, od upadanja u zamku kolotečine do prevare. Raspadanje braka, ljubavi, života. Hvatala sam se za svaku riječ kao za slamku spasa. Toliko je dobro pisana da me na trenutke fizički boljelo. Krien stvarno zna prikazati odnose među ljudima – među partnerima, majkama i kćerima. Uvijek me uvuče u priču, učini ju izrazito stvarnom i poznatom, a teme koje provlači kroz svoje romane uvijek su zanimljive i bitne.
Požar je roman bez previše pompe, ništa spektakularno, a opet meni osobno, baš kao i Ljubav i druge opasnosti, izrazito zanimljiv i zabavan. U samo dvjestotinjak stranica autorica će vas potaknuti na mnoga razmišljanja o životu, braku, obitelji, djeci i starenju, čak i nakon okretanja posljednje stranice.
“Ne opire se onome što se ne može promijeniti. Čuva snagu za smislene borbe.”
[english]
The Fire – Daniela Krien
Times are changing, students are no longer what Peter got used to all his life working as a university professor of literature, his wife Rahel, a successful psychotherapist, is also different, as is their marriage of thirty years. When their planned summer vacation in the mountains fails, they go to the farm where Rahel spent many summers as a child. Rahel is in search of saving their marriage, improving family relations and their future. And Peter? Peter is here.
The author slowly develops the story by showing a long-term marriage and all the problems it brings, from falling into a rut to cheating. Disintegration of marriage, love, life. I was clinging to every word like a lifeline. It is so well written that at times it physically hurt. Krien really knows how to show relationships between people – between partners, mothers and daughters. She always draws me into the story, makes it extremely real and familiar, and the themes she weaves through her novels are always interesting and important.
The Fire is a novel without too much fanfare, nothing spectacular, and yet for me personally, just like Love In Case of Emergency, extremely interesting and fun. In just two hundred pages, the author will encourage you to think about life, marriage, family, children and aging, even after turning the last page.
