18: Blomsterdalen

 Blomsterdalen

af Niviaq Korneliussen

317 sider

2020

eg.

fantastisk

Nedenstående er skrevet til et bogkapitel om grønlandsk LGBTQ+ litteratur:

...a book about friendship and love, but mostly it is a book about suicide. In interviews[1] the author talks about a suicide culture in Greenland that aren’t being talked about. She hopes that her book can help start conversations about a topic that needs to be talked about, so something can be done.

Blomsterdalen is about a young lesbian girl. She is moving to Denmark to study. In the plane travelling to Denmark she gets to talking with the woman sitting next to her. To the woman she says about herself: My family is afraid I will get lost. I do that often [my translation] (Korneliussen 2020, 31). It sums her and the book up pretty good. It is about a girl who were lost, was found, but continue to get lost again and again in her actions, her memories and her thoughts. She gets more and more lost until she loses herself completely and commits suicide in the end. She has a girlfriend and is accepted by her family. But she feels wrong, like she doesn’t fit in. Not because she is gay, but because of how she looks, acts, are and so on. She is a girl with a very low self-esteem and a drive to self-sabotage. It is like she is lost even before the book starts.

Den er virkelig velskreven. Man bliver suget ud ind i historien og hovedpersonens skæbne, som allerede fra starten trækken mod tragedien. Man fornemmer fra starten, at dette ikke er en bog med en nem eller lykkelig slutning.

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[1] Ravn Nielsen, Marie. 2020. Ung forfatter vil bryde tabu med ny bog: Stop selvmordskulturen. DR, 24. august 2020 https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/boeger/ung-forfatter-vil-bryde-tabu-med-ny-bog-stop-selvmordskulturen?cid=newsletter_nb_boger_20200829075828