When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back
$36.24
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2020
Summary
‘Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.’ Max Porter, author of GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS and LANNY
‘There is no one quite like Naja Marie Aidt’ Valeria Luiselli
‘Devastating, angry, challenging, fragmented and filled with the beautiful hope that the love we have for people continues into the world even after they’re gone.’ Cult…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787475380 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787475387 |
| Author: | Naja Marie Aidt, Denise Newman |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
Naja Marie Aidt’s shattering elegy about her grown son’s death is a modern Greek tragedy-and a relentless account of grief’s deepest reality.
Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is. - Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Lanny
Like grief itself, this book isn’t a linear thing; it’s devastating, angry, challenging, fragmented and filled with the beautiful hope that the love we have for people continues into the world even after they’re gone. - CultureflyThere is no one quite like Naja Marie Aidt. She’s comparable only to things like sequoias, whale-song, desert thunderstorms, or wolves. The depth of her emotional world and the diaphanous, often brutal clarity with which she understands the human soul beckon us to pause, breathe, think. Here, she takes us on a journey into death and loss, and then thrusts us back out-back into life-more awake, more ready to embrace it as it comes. - Valeria LuiselliFragmented, poetic, informative and truthful, Aidt faces the greatest loss we can ever know with all the force of great elegy writers like Anne Carson and Denise Riley. Essential. - Polly Clark, author of Larchfield and TigerAbout The Author
Naja Marie Aidt
Naja Marie Aidt is a Danish poet and author originally from Greenland. She has nearly 30 works to her name, primarily poetry, but also including plays, screenplays, and children’s books. Aidt has also translated fiction and poetry from Swedish and Norwegian.
Her numerous honors include the Danish Critics Choice Award, The Danish Art Foundation’s Award for Lifelong Service, and the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize in 2008 for her work Baboon. Her writings have been translated into ten languages and have been featured in anthologies such as Best European Fiction and in various American and international journals and magazines.
Baboon was published in the United States in 2014, and its translator, Denise Newman, received the PEN Translation Prize for it in 2015. Naja Marie Aidt’s first novel, Rock, Paper, Scissors, was published in August 2015. She currently resides in Brooklyn.
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