The journalist and writer Magnus Falkehed kidnapped in Syria tells strongly about love and captivity.
This is a very cleverly told sommarprat that captures the listener from the first word. Magnus Falkeheds Summer starts in the eye of the storm; in the cell in Syria, where he and photographer Niclas Hammarström have just washed their jeans with stolen detergent. The jeans were stiff with dirt and urine after weeks of hiking and torture.
“Dignity-raising”, calling Falkehed scent of laundry detergents and describe in one word exactly what captivity means.
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But there are nuances of Magnus Falkeheds story that makes the war so vivid and real. Despite the fear and uncertainty he appreciates the humor of the guard says “I will fire you” instead of “I want to shoot you.”
And he is strengthened by thinking of his children and his wife Florence he met As a student in Montpellier, a memory he smiles at even though he has a gun pointed at him.
For although Magnus Falkehed says apprehension about both the war in Syria, his journalistic driver and his Finnish mother escape to Sweden, it is the love for the wife who stuck with me. The backbone of his life, as he says, the one who makes him do not fall apart.
Magnus Falkehed has changed, he says, thanks to the experience he can meet people with similar experiences as fellow human beings on a deeper level. And me, he gives an insight into a different reality, in a way that only a master storyteller can.
The last sentence : “And to you Frenchmen who listened, I say bonne fête nationale “
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