The Birds

This was a pretty good Norwegian book. It's by Tarjei Vesaas. I loved his book The Ice Palace and decided to read another book by him. It's about a simpleton who does small jobs here and there. He lives with his clever sister who puts up with him. One day a lumberjack enters their life and the mentally disabled man fears for his future when he hears the two are in love. From there the book gradually ends in tragedy. You really enter into the head of the simpleton he sees beauty in nature like no other and when he worries about his future you feel it too. He is like the beautiful woodcock that gets tragically killed in the beginning of the book. Goodreads doesn't have a 3.5 rating so I rounded it up to 4. I couldn't give it a 3 because it deserved better. I need to read more Vesaas.