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Three autobiographical parts follow the author’s coming of age, literary ambition and addiction.
Original title: Barndom; Ungdom; Gift
Penguin Modern Classics
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An aspiring poet tries to reconcile romantic desires with realism and unbelief.
Seven stories combine enigmatic encounters, stories within stories and shifting identities.
Smilla investigates a Greenlandic boy’s death in Copenhagen using her knowledge of snow.
Original title: Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne
A saga of Marstal follows generations of sailors and the families who remain ashore.
Original title: Vi, de druknede
Statements from a spaceship’s crew unsettle the boundary between human and humanoid.
Original title: De ansatte
Literary critic Ole Jastrau abandons his orderly life and descends into alcoholism.
Original title: Hærværk
A family saga moves through centuries of Danish history, blending private lives with imagination.
Original title: Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede
Eleven stories explore encounters, destiny and the narratives people make of their lives.
The author recalls running a farm in colonial Kenya and the people she met there.
A writer experiences a mental crisis as the boundaries between home, fear and hospital begin to blur.
Motherhood and writing collide in a novel assembled from multiple literary forms.
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