But I am not afraid

Thick as thieves the last of leaves

In the winter sun

Holding fast this freezing branch

Is home to us

Step, step right over the line

And onto borrowed time

When it's life, not waiting to die

Waiting to divide to divide

Counting stars and passing cars

On the interstate

The end is near I feel it dear,

But I am not afraid.. - Borrowed Time, A Fine Frenzy

Today I finished reading my book whilst listening to A Fine Frenzy's album 'One Cell in the Sea'. Above is the track and some lyrics from it that I found very appropriate to the story.

I felt they were relevant because the tale is one about a logger from Finland and how he survives during the war in 1939. Conditions are harsh and as he is taken prisoner by the Russians he finds himself in the company of a few other Russian prisoners of war and a Finnish speaking Red, Antonov, who helps him commute with the others. Although they are supposed enemies, they all form a bond with one another and realise that they are all that they have left in the world. They make an attempt to escape the clutch of the heartless and bitter Russians and flee to a boathouse. However they realise that they are running out of food and have to make an important decision between staying and dying of hunger, or attempting to go their seperate ways and possibly dying in the cold.

'The snag with your question, angel, is you don't know if we'll be shot when we get home, nor whether we'll be allowed to live in Sweden. You said so yourself, we don't know anything, and the man who knows nothing goes home.' - Antonov, The Burnt-Out Town Of Miracles (Roy Jacobsen)

They all decide to set off on their own individual missions and wish eachother good luck for the future. I wont tell you how it ends in case you're planning on reading it, but I will say that I was quite disappointed with the ending.