
REVIEW: Fresh Water For Flowers by Valerie Perrin

Title: Fresh Water for Flowers
Author: Valerie Perrin
Type: Fiction
Published: 2018.
Pages: 476
Publisher: Europa Editions
โ๐๐ตโ๐ด ๐ข ๐ญ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ช๐ตโ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด.โ
Do you find it intimidating when the book you read talks about things you dread the most? Will you ever consciously take to reading that kind of a book?
Yes, masochistic as I am, I do that. It makes me uncomfortable, it makes me edgy, but it helps me get in terms with some things too. From everything in the world I am scared of death the most. I know its inevitable for all of us, but the sense of not knowing and wanting so many places to see, so many emotions to feel and experiences to have…I just fear there just wouldn’t be enough time for all of the things I wish for.
This book talks a lot about death. About grief too. About coming to terms with it, about coping, about moving on. About saying goodbye and also about getting back together. It is also a book about love. All kinds of it. About bonds that bind us, bonds that break us. Love that is steady and reliable and love that rips us apart.
The more I think about it, the more I realize how beautiful it really is. Its written so well – the language is elegant and simple (have to say that the translator did a wonderful job with it) and the story is just of that kind that will stay with you forever. At some points I did feel like it was too slow and too detailed, but I didn’t mind it a lot. The characters wee layered and done so well, that even the ones that you couldn’t morally understand, you could at least emphasize with. This is definitely a book I can wholeheartedly recommend and that I plan on rereading one day.
“๐ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ณรจ๐ฏ๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ. ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ตโ๐ด ๐ข ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ตโ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐บ, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎโ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ.”
My GR rating: 4.5 stars

