Belatedly spotting the theme
Sep. 5th, 2011 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylDespite being most of the way through Yrsa Sigurðardóttir's The Day is Dark, I've only just noticed the common thread about the disruptive influence of booze.
There's the alcoholic in rehab who clearly knows something about the men who've disappeared from his former workplace. There's the old hunter who has held firm to the old ways, even as his son has succumbed to alcoholic dispair. There's the survival expert who takes advantage of every opportunity to get drunk. Then there's the corpse discovered when one of the (reluctant) investigators goes casting about for a stray bottle of brennivín. Even poor Thóra isn't immune: having packed her suitcase after a getting very drunk celebrating her friend's decision to buy a new car, she finds herself in a deserted mining station on the east coast of Greendland with nothing but silk blouses and evening dresses and impractical shoes...
There's the alcoholic in rehab who clearly knows something about the men who've disappeared from his former workplace. There's the old hunter who has held firm to the old ways, even as his son has succumbed to alcoholic dispair. There's the survival expert who takes advantage of every opportunity to get drunk. Then there's the corpse discovered when one of the (reluctant) investigators goes casting about for a stray bottle of brennivín. Even poor Thóra isn't immune: having packed her suitcase after a getting very drunk celebrating her friend's decision to buy a new car, she finds herself in a deserted mining station on the east coast of Greendland with nothing but silk blouses and evening dresses and impractical shoes...
