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From one of Scandinavia’s finest and best-loved novelists comes a startlingly intimate and powerful portrait about the fragile, yet irrevocable bond between a young girl and her dying mother
Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, they―the mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in 1980s Denmark―now reside in an apartment over the hairdresser shop in the same island town where they’ve always lived. It’s only ever been the two of them, and they are so enmeshed that it can be hard to tell them apart: they share the same manners, habits, and opinions to an almost comic degree. (“The shrubberies are dotted with crocuses, they don’t care for crocuses.”) One day the mother feels a lump in her throat, and, as our young heroine reflects, “nothing’s the way it is.” While the mother is in and out of the hospital, the daughter―barely sixteen and just starting high school―makes new friends (Tove Dunk, Hafni, Bob, and Desert Boots) and meets a few boys, but she remains essentially alone. In its splintering, multi-layered, perpetual present tense, where the borders of time seemingly expand, flatten, and dissolve, Helle finds an unexpectedly moving voice for her heroines' pain, one which rises almost wordlessly to the surface of the prose, to then reach across and profoundly touch the reader. A poignant coming-of-age story and a comedy of errors, they is also a billet-doux to the fashions and fads of the island of Lolland, Helle’s childhood home: she painstakingly records what people wore, how they spoke, and the kinds of things they ate (“cauliflower gratin” and “macaroni horns in the tomato soup”). Gorgeously rendered into English by the prize-winning translator Martin Aitken, they is an exquisite small-town portrait―oblique, calibrated, and oddly affecting―of the love between a mother and daughter, of all its attendant longing, and the inevitable letting go."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Helle Helle was born in Denmark in 1965. She is a graduate of the Danish Academy of Creative Writing and the author of a number of novels, as well as two collections of short stories. She has received numerous awards, including The Critics' Prize and The Golden Laurel. She is one of Scandinavia’s foremost writers, with a career spanning three dacades, from her debut Example of Life (1993) to her most recent novel Hey Hafni, forthcoming from New Directions in the fall of 2027. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages.
Martin Aitken has translated numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Peter Høeg, Ida Jessen, and Kim Leine. He won the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of Hanne Ørstavik’s Love.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, they?the mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in 1980s Denmark?now reside in an apartment over the hairdresser shop in the same island town where they?ve always lived. It?s only ever been the two of them, and they are so enmeshed that it can be hard to tell them apart: they share the same manners, habits, and opinions to an almost comic degree. (?The shrubberies are dotted with crocuses, they don?t care for crocuses.?) One day the mother feels a lump in her throat, and, as our young heroine reflects, ?nothing?s the way it is.? While the mother is in and out of the hospital, the daughter?barely sixteen and just starting high school?makes new friends (Tove Dunk, Hafni, Bob, and Desert Boots) and meets a few boys, but she remains essentially alone. In its splintering, multi-layered, perpetual present tense, where the borders of time seemingly expand, flatten, and dissolve, Helle finds an unexpectedly moving voice for her heroines' pain, one which rises almost wordlessly to the surface of the prose, to then reach across and profoundly touch the reader. A poignant coming-of-age story and a comedy of errors, they is also a billet-doux to the fashions and fads of the island of Lolland, Helle?s childhood home: she painstakingly records what people wore, how they spoke, and the kinds of things they ate (?cauliflower gratin? and ?macaroni horns in the tomato soup?). Gorgeously rendered into English by the prize-winning translator Martin Aitken, they is an exquisite small-town portrait?oblique, calibrated, and oddly affecting?of the love between a mother and daughter, of all its attendant longing, and the inevitable letting go. Seller Inventory # CIN0811239128G
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, they?the mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in 1980s Denmark?now reside in an apartment over the hairdresser shop in the same island town where they?ve always lived. It?s only ever been the two of them, and they are so enmeshed that it can be hard to tell them apart: they share the same manners, habits, and opinions to an almost comic degree. (?The shrubberies are dotted with crocuses, they don?t care for crocuses.?) One day the mother feels a lump in her throat, and, as our young heroine reflects, ?nothing?s the way it is.? While the mother is in and out of the hospital, the daughter?barely sixteen and just starting high school?makes new friends (Tove Dunk, Hafni, Bob, and Desert Boots) and meets a few boys, but she remains essentially alone. In its splintering, multi-layered, perpetual present tense, where the borders of time seemingly expand, flatten, and dissolve, Helle finds an unexpectedly moving voice for her heroines' pain, one which rises almost wordlessly to the surface of the prose, to then reach across and profoundly touch the reader. A poignant coming-of-age story and a comedy of errors, they is also a billet-doux to the fashions and fads of the island of Lolland, Helle?s childhood home: she painstakingly records what people wore, how they spoke, and the kinds of things they ate (?cauliflower gratin? and ?macaroni horns in the tomato soup?). Gorgeously rendered into English by the prize-winning translator Martin Aitken, they is an exquisite small-town portrait?oblique, calibrated, and oddly affecting?of the love between a mother and daughter, of all its attendant longing, and the inevitable letting go. Seller Inventory # CIN0811239128G
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Following a number of moves from one shabby rental to another, theythe mother and daughter of this elusive, strangely riveting novel set in 1980s Denmarknow reside in an apartment over the hairdresser shop in the same island town where theyve always lived. Its only ever been the two of them, and they are so enmeshed that it can be hard to tell them apart: they share the same manners, habits, and opinions to an almost comic degree. (The shrubberies are dotted with crocuses, they dont care for crocuses.) One day the mother feels a lump in her throat, and, as our young heroine reflects, nothings the way it is. While the mother is in and out of the hospital, the daughterbarely sixteen and just starting high schoolmakes new friends (Tove Dunk, Hafni, Bob, and Desert Boots) and meets a few boys, but she remains essentially alone. In its splintering, multi-layered, perpetual present tense, where the borders of time seemingly expand, flatten, and dissolve, Helle finds an unexpectedly moving voice for her heroines' pain, one which rises almost wordlessly to the surface of the prose, to then reach across and profoundly touch the reader. A poignant coming-of-age story and a comedy of errors, they is also a billet-doux to the fashions and fads of the island of Lolland, Helles childhood home: she painstakingly records what people wore, how they spoke, and the kinds of things they ate (cauliflower gratin and macaroni horns in the tomato soup). Gorgeously rendered into English by the prize-winning translator Martin Aitken, they is an exquisite small-town portraitoblique, calibrated, and oddly affectingof the love between a mother and daughter, of all its attendant longing, and the inevitable letting go. From one of Scandinavias finest and best-loved novelists comes a startlingly intimate and powerful portrait about the fragile, yet irrevocable bond between a young girl and her dying mother Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780811239127