The Girl by the Bridge : A Detective Konrad Novel by Arnaldur Indridason EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Authors: Arnaldur Indridason
- Language: English
- Genre: International Mystery & Crime
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- Size: 2 MB
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The young man walked west along Skothúsvegur Street, stopped on the
bridge over the Pond and, leaning over the railing, saw the doll in the water.
The bridge formed an elegant, low arch where the Pond narrowed and
extended southward into Hljómskálagarður Park. The man stood at the
crown of the arch, and as it was evening, there was little traffic on the road.
A single car slowed down as it passed over the arch and then disappeared
from view, its noisy engine breaking the stillness on the bridge. He thought
he saw someone cross Sóleyjargata Street, and another person wearing a
trench coat and hat walked by him without looking up. The young man
leaned on the railing and looked over the Pond towards the Iðnó Culture
House, the city centre and, further still, to where Mount Esja rose in the
twilight, solid and immovable. Over the mountain, the moon shone like a
fairy tale from a distant world, and when he looked down, he saw the doll,
half submerged.
He immediately found something poetic about it, inspiring various
musings typical to a young writer like him. From his jacket pocket, he
pulled a small notepad and fountain pen that he always carried with him and
began jotting down a few words about lost innocence, the impermanence of
childhood, and the water that was both a source of life and a destructive
force. The notepad, which was bound in black leather and inscribed with
the date 1961 in gold numerals, was full of the observations of a young man
who was slowly but surely treading the path of a writer and took that role
seriously. He had already put together a volume of poetry but hadn’t had the
courage to show it to a publisher.
He feared criticism and rejection more
than anything else and spent a good deal of time polishing each poem to
perfection, constantly making small changes or adding details, as he was
doing now with this new poem of his on the transience of life.
He guessed that a girl who had been walking next to the Pond had
dropped her doll in the water and hadn’t been able to recover it.
This
thought, too, he jotted down. He tried to put the stillness of the evening into
words. The city lights that were reflected on the water’s surface. He looked
towards the islet in the middle of the Pond, which the Arctic terns occupied
every spring. Now those birds were as silent as the night that laid its veil
over the city, he wrote in his notepad.
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