Natasha Illum Berg
Books by Natasha
Bark of the Sundogs
Tea on the Blue Sofa
Rivers of Red Earth
So Wanton a God
Looking at Harry
"When they got the call from the pilot, to say that Daniel McFreigh had died, Beatrice was in the bath and hadn’t heard the conversation on the telephone. She was relieved that Thomas did not come into the bathroom, but told her from the passage. He stood outside the door and said it in a low voice, as if it was an event from long ago, a past voice, one that history had already covered with muffling layers of time. A child with Daniel, she thought, would have been strong and beautiful. She looked at her own pale flesh under the surface of the water and wondered at how strange it was that she was waterproof and had probably just laid there, or laughed, or brushed her teeth, when he had died. They hadn’t planned to go back to Tanzania again. It wasn’t something they had discussed, but they had both known, Thomas had made it quite clear, when they left Kilimanjaro airport two years back, that it was the last time."
- Excerpt from Vildnis translated from Danish
Reviews
As translated from main Swedish and danish daily newspapers:
"...Natasha Illum Berg handles her characters and settings with great care, lingers by things that matter, and through her language she brings life to scenes, that stay in the mind of the reader. I dare say that this is so rare that her swedish publishing house should publish all of her previous work, as soon as possible."
-Göteborgsposten, Sweden.
"...Does so called civilized man belong in nature any more at all? In that case is nature good or bad, is there meaning behind it or is it empty, does it offer comfort or is it frightening, beautiful or cruel?
Thomas, as he is standing infront of a lioness, reaches the conclusion that it simply IS. These are themes worth listening to, worth opening yourself up to."
-Kristelig dagblad, Denmark