When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in NonfictionLonglisted for the National Book Award for Translated LiteratureLonglisted for the 2020 PEN Translation AwardAn unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother's grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language.In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love. Intensely moving, When Death T…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Newman, Denise (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56689-593-4
- EAN: 9781566895934
- Produktnummer: 33551346
- Verlag: Coffee House Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 152 S.
Über den Autor
Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, including Baboon, which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.Denise Newman is a translator and poet who has published three collections of poetry. She has translated two books by Denmark's Inger Christensen. Her translation of Naja Marie Aidt's short-fiction collection Baboon won the 2015 PEN Translation Prize.
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