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Tine Hoeg

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Tityrus

Literature & Fiction

Duncan Wiese

Literary

My Work

After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can’t afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write.\nMy Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms – fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters – to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature.

Olga Ravn

A Leopard-Skin Hat

Anne Serre

An exquisite, lyrical reimagining of Wittgenstein's philosophical work of 1922, from a rising star on par with Inger Christensen Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, often noted as the most important philosophical work of the 20th century, had a broad goal: to identify the relationship between language and reality, and to define the limits of science. Following on from Wittgenstein 100 years later, Signe Gjessing updates and reimagines the Tractatus, marrying poetry with philosophy to test the boundaries of reality. Stunning, knowing, and revitalising, and glinting with stars, silk, and ecstasy, this is poetry which exacts the logical consequence of philosophy, while locating beauty and significance in the 'nonsense' of the world which Wittgenstein dismissed.

Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus

Signe Gjessing

Poetry

Thread Ripper is a double-stranded novel about weaving, programming, and pioneering women. A tapestry-weaver in her thirties embarks on her first big commission: a digitally woven tapestry for a public building. As she works, devoting all her waking hours to the commission, she draws engrossing connections between the stuff that life is made from – DNA, plant tissue, algorithms, text, and textile – and that which disrupts it – radiation, pests, entropy, and doubt. In the novel’s second strand, we meet Ada Lovelace, the 1830s mathematician and pioneer of computer programming, and mythical figures such as Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, who wove and unpicked a shroud to put off her 108 suitors. 'A mesmerizing choreography of textile and technology, archive and memory. With cellular precision, Amalie Smith weaves connective tissue between selfhood and history through vital, tactile accumulations of affect and imagery. Innovative, intricate and achingly bodily, Thread Ripperis a rare treasure'– Elinor Cleghorn , author ofUnwell Women

Thread Ripper

Amalie Smith

Contemporary

Walking through Palermo

Travel

Kohnen, Oskar

Specialty Travel

Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today.\nMeditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time. What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species' trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light?\nThe anthology takes its name from Steven Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays, and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology, and alternative education. By giving access to tools , a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined.\nCompiled, edited and with a foreword by Denise Rose Hansen.

Tools for Extinction

Olivia Sudjic

Vi Khi Nao

Enrique-Vila-Matas

Joanna Walsh

Naja Marie Aidt

Jeaan-Baptiste del Amo

Christina Hesselholdt

Mara Coson

Jakuta Alikavazovic

Sevastopol contains three distinct narratives, each burrowing into a crucial turning point in a person’s life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian\-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a musty, semi\-abandoned inn somewhere in the haunted depths of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the city of Sevastopol and a Russian painter portraying Crimean War soldiers. Inspired by Tolstoy’s The Sevastopol Sketches, Emilio Fraia masterfully weaves together these stories of yearning and loss, obsession and madness, failure and the desire to persist, in a restrained manner reminiscent of the prose of Anton Chekhov, Roberto Bolaño, and Rachel Cusk.

Sevastopol

Fraia

Emilio

Stories from a world both fantastically strange and gruellingly familiar where flight, ruin, prejudice, and disinformation soar in an irresistible, susurrant fugue of human longing\nIn the four stories that make up The Dolls , characters are plagued by unexplained illnesses, oblique, human-made disasters and environmental losses. 
A big sister descends into the family basement. 
Another sister refuses her younger brother. 
A third sister with memory loss is on the run, seeking shelter at Notpla. 
A fourth set of siblings travel to Hungary with their late mother in a coffin. 
They each have a different version of their mother’s story. 
Drawing on the likes of August Strindberg, Franz Kafka, Andrej Kurkov, Knut Hamsun, T.S. Eliot, Béla Tarr, and Hieronymus Bosch, Scavenius’s universe is chilling and excruciatingly seductive. 
In it, nothing can be said to be true anymore. 
After all, anything can be propaganda today.\nPraise for The Dolls : 'Ursula Scavenius is one of the most exciting Danish short story writers at work today. The Dolls , in Jennifer Russell's magnificent translation, is a literary page-turner: haunting, mesmerizing, and unforgettable in all its grotesque glory.' 
– Katrine Øgaard Jensen “This is a universe that paints everything forth in grey, hushed strokes. 
It is contagious and all-consuming; even a space roadster could appear without the reader raising an eyebrow. 
A silver thread of ethical and moral degradation runs through the entire collection, all fig leaves are burnt, and humankind cannot escape its responsibility of having destroyed the world. 
Dramatic, hysterical and supremely well-written. 
Christine Lind, Ditlevsen, POV International. 
"Because of the Scavenian style and method, these allegorical sets become effectively and thoroughly, almost claustrophobically, intimidating. The more and the longer the narrative gets stuck into its dark morass, the more diabolical the reader experiences their own confinement, and they become desperate about not being able nor willing to escape, all because of the very power of fascination." – Lars Bukdahl, Weekendavisen, "The language draws the reader into a floating dream-like state that makes the reading experience disturbingly beautiful." Emma Karlebjerg, Litteratursiden "When you read Scavenius you often and suddenly have doubts about whether you can ever truly share an experience with someone else in that place which we call reality. 
Scavenius writes like that! 
Here, the weird and the ordinary speak the same language. 
Her beautiful prose, which draws not only on the traditions of Kafka and Poe, but also on M.R. James, Henry James, Arthur Machen, Astrid Ehrencron-Kidde and others, is a quiet but powerful attack on the security we have in life that all too often keeps us from asking the most relevant questions about being human.– Danish Arts Foundation\n"Skilfully crafted and shocking stories that are uncompromising in their insistence on describing without explaining. Or put differently: the stories feel like testimonies from people who do not themselves understand what is going on. Scavenius’s dystopian narratives are hard to put down, reminiscent of both historical crimes and current crises."– Kristin Vego, Information "The Dolls is grotesque, a little bit humorous and above all, very well-written. Scavenius is her very own thing, her prose is carried by sensations and moods. Although she is not without predecessors, it is truly spectacular that Scavenius’s books are so unlike other Danish works being written today."– Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Politiken

The Dolls

Ursula Scavenius and translated by Jennifer Russell

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