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.
[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
