Irene Song eBook Astrid Julian
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A contemporary fantasy, Irene's Song tells the story of world-famous conductor Irene Janowitz. She doesn’t believe the rumours surrounding her work. How can music bring dead children back to life? It’s a ridiculous idea. But something about her music has made her mother so afraid that she has never attended one of her concerts, not even in Vancouver, their home city. Irene's mother and grandmother share a secret, and she has no idea what it could be, except that a long, long time ago, in a land far, far away from Canada something quite strange happened to them both.
Irene's Song was a finalist for the BSFA Best Short Fiction Prize in the UK after it was published by David Pringle in Interzone 69. It also appeared in Germany in the anthology, Die Verwandlung (Heyne, Wolfgang Jeschke, editor).
Irene Song eBook Astrid Julian
Beautifully and skillfully crafted, this story will sear you through and through. Though its main frame is fantasy fiction, the fantasy element is used to heighten the already dramatic stories of Germans who, along with many other ethnic groups in the 20th century, suffered enormously because of Hitler, Stalin, Tito and others. In this case the protagonists are Germans who happened to live in Yugoslavia, today's Serbia, some for 300 years. When political unrest hit, men were rounded up and shot, women and children separated, both going to work in the Soviet Union and parts of Yugoslavia in horrific Gulags. That anyone survived them is a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Julian movingly weaves fantasy, the present, the past, and the power of music to show just how much one family was forced to endure. Her descriptions are razor sharp. On the day the horror started for the protagonist, she notes "...the trees were still, like the tail of a dog just before it bites."The story is, for the most part, narrated by God, or at least a Deity that resembles the One we all know. He has many angels working for him, though He doesn't seem to be in control of them. He doesn't seem to be in control of anything much - witness the horrors of history - he just observes a great deal and says of his own power: "I can see into the hearts of men and women. I could be All-Knowing, if I could just make them think about what I need to know when I need to know it." His smoky jasmine scented angels aren't your ordinary run-of-the-mill kind. They have leather wings that are silver studded, pierced noses and ears.
Perhaps the central question to the story is the one a main character asks, and the reader often wonders about throughout the reading of this book: "Why do people do such things to each other?"
With a few well placed, poignant descriptions and down-to-earth statements Julian captures the agony, both physical, mental and spiritual, countless Donauschwaben women were forced to endure for the crime of having German blood. She shows how the hardship destroyed untold lives, and how the painful after-effects live long into the next generation. It is hard to say which is the most difficult fact to accept - that humans can commit such atrocities upon one another, or that having committed them, history and the rest of the world didn't blink an eye and hardly anyone knows of the fates of these sufferers today.
Moving, heartbreaking, and masterfully woven together, this story is a must for anyone who searches for life's meaning in a seemingly meaningless world, and that is a tribute to how good Julian is as a writer.
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Irene Song eBook Astrid Julian Reviews
Beautifully and skillfully crafted, this story will sear you through and through. Though its main frame is fantasy fiction, the fantasy element is used to heighten the already dramatic stories of Germans who, along with many other ethnic groups in the 20th century, suffered enormously because of Hitler, Stalin, Tito and others. In this case the protagonists are Germans who happened to live in Yugoslavia, today's Serbia, some for 300 years. When political unrest hit, men were rounded up and shot, women and children separated, both going to work in the Soviet Union and parts of Yugoslavia in horrific Gulags. That anyone survived them is a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Julian movingly weaves fantasy, the present, the past, and the power of music to show just how much one family was forced to endure. Her descriptions are razor sharp. On the day the horror started for the protagonist, she notes "...the trees were still, like the tail of a dog just before it bites."
The story is, for the most part, narrated by God, or at least a Deity that resembles the One we all know. He has many angels working for him, though He doesn't seem to be in control of them. He doesn't seem to be in control of anything much - witness the horrors of history - he just observes a great deal and says of his own power "I can see into the hearts of men and women. I could be All-Knowing, if I could just make them think about what I need to know when I need to know it." His smoky jasmine scented angels aren't your ordinary run-of-the-mill kind. They have leather wings that are silver studded, pierced noses and ears.
Perhaps the central question to the story is the one a main character asks, and the reader often wonders about throughout the reading of this book "Why do people do such things to each other?"
With a few well placed, poignant descriptions and down-to-earth statements Julian captures the agony, both physical, mental and spiritual, countless Donauschwaben women were forced to endure for the crime of having German blood. She shows how the hardship destroyed untold lives, and how the painful after-effects live long into the next generation. It is hard to say which is the most difficult fact to accept - that humans can commit such atrocities upon one another, or that having committed them, history and the rest of the world didn't blink an eye and hardly anyone knows of the fates of these sufferers today.
Moving, heartbreaking, and masterfully woven together, this story is a must for anyone who searches for life's meaning in a seemingly meaningless world, and that is a tribute to how good Julian is as a writer.
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