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Eventyr: 12 Unlikely Conversations.
12 Unlikely Conversations recreates wisps of remembered dreams. In these quirky yet poignant tales, haunting characters speak with a relevance and resonance beyond their bizarre situations. You won’t have met anyone quite like them before. A clown and a vampire, Death and a little girl, a man and a mannequin, and other unforgettable characters, meet in the most unlikely of circumstances and say the most unlikely things! Enter a world where the unlikely occurs, where the expected is sure not to happen, where endings are beginnings, and where the most important questions remain unanswered.
123 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2015
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January 22, 2023
In a world where things are taken way too seriously, sometimes all that’s needed is an unlikely conversation… Reminiscent of the fables of the Grimm brothers, Edgar Allan Poe poems, to the parables of the bible; Eventyr: 12 Unlikely Conversations is a book of short stories filled with much heart as they are written from the heart.
Andrew, in his writing style, is not one to beat about the bush so to read a story with such an approach compared to other novels or short stories I’ve read I was amazed how quickly I felt engaged, and liberated, by not being bothered by the need to know a character’s backstory or external details; there was only the ‘there and now’ – a sensation I have never felt before reading any other material. But I also love these stories as they are so free to be interpreted and enjoyed in anyway the reader so chooses.
The illustrations, at first, lend themselves to the horror or suspenseful persuasion as one might think all the stories might be, certainly the Clown and the Vampire (which reminded me a little of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ‘The Raven) and, perhaps the darkest, in my opinion, the Witch and the Monk (perhaps Andrew’s catholic upbringing being dusted through some of the tales) but as the book progresses there are stories that slide into other genres. From the tragedy of The Man and the Mannequin – which has since been performed as a play! - the English Pirate and the Orphaned Spanish Boy to the lighthearted, uplifting allegories of The Donkey and The Drunk and the Village Idiot and His Shadow (a funny little tale that consoled me in a moment of much needed solace) to even the ambiguous intent or meaning of the Boy and the Leprechaun.
I’m more than excited to read the next two installments but if finding the time to read is difficult for you, there’s a lovely audio version on youtube on the author’s channel (“Andrew O’Connell”).
https://www.youtube.com/@MrCoupDeThea...
Andrew, in his writing style, is not one to beat about the bush so to read a story with such an approach compared to other novels or short stories I’ve read I was amazed how quickly I felt engaged, and liberated, by not being bothered by the need to know a character’s backstory or external details; there was only the ‘there and now’ – a sensation I have never felt before reading any other material. But I also love these stories as they are so free to be interpreted and enjoyed in anyway the reader so chooses.
The illustrations, at first, lend themselves to the horror or suspenseful persuasion as one might think all the stories might be, certainly the Clown and the Vampire (which reminded me a little of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ‘The Raven) and, perhaps the darkest, in my opinion, the Witch and the Monk (perhaps Andrew’s catholic upbringing being dusted through some of the tales) but as the book progresses there are stories that slide into other genres. From the tragedy of The Man and the Mannequin – which has since been performed as a play! - the English Pirate and the Orphaned Spanish Boy to the lighthearted, uplifting allegories of The Donkey and The Drunk and the Village Idiot and His Shadow (a funny little tale that consoled me in a moment of much needed solace) to even the ambiguous intent or meaning of the Boy and the Leprechaun.
I’m more than excited to read the next two installments but if finding the time to read is difficult for you, there’s a lovely audio version on youtube on the author’s channel (“Andrew O’Connell”).
https://www.youtube.com/@MrCoupDeThea...
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