Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do theopposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. Aninstinct.
Dorthe Nors Libros
20 de mayo de 1970
Dorthe Nors es una aclamada autora danesa cuyas obras se caracterizan por una aguda observación de la vida moderna y las relaciones interpersonales. Su estilo se describe a menudo como escueto pero emocionalmente resonante, capturando los sutiles matices de la psique humana. Nors no teme explorar temas complejos con honestidad auténtica, lo que le ha valido el reconocimiento internacional. Su escritura resuena con lectores de todo el mundo que aprecian su habilidad única para encontrar lo extraordinario en lo ordinario.
"Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It's a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct. Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast--from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and ancestors' ties to the region as well as her decision to move there from Copenhagen. She writes about the ritual burning of witch effigies on Midsummer's Eve; the environmental activist who opposed a chemical factory in the 1950s; the quiet fishing villages that surfers transformed into an area known as Cold Hawaii starting in the 1970s. She connects wind turbines to Viking ships, thirteenth-century church frescoes to her mother's unrealized dreams. She describes strong waves, sand drifts, storm surges, shipwrecks, and other instances of nature asserting its power over human attempts to ignore or control it. Through a deep, personal engagement with this singular landscape, A Line in the World accesses the universal. Its ultimate subjects are civilization, belonging, and change: changes within one person's life, changes occurring in various communities today, and change as the only constant of life on Earth."-- Provided by publisher
In this highly original, playful, poignant yet funny novella, Dorthe Nors explores our struggles to find love, relate to others and simply be heard above the relentless noise of the modern age.
In these glittering, very funny stories, the acclaimed Danish writer Dorthe Nors sketches ordinary lives taking unexpected turns.
An unsettling, darkly humorous and haunting new short story collection from the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted author.
Mirror Shoulder Signal
- 192 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
Als sich Sonja mit über vierzig endlich bei der Fahrschule anmeldet, verspricht sie sich davon mehr Freiheit. Nur bereitet ihr das Schalten größere Probleme als gedacht und überhaupt läuft ihr Leben gerade nicht rund. Immer mehr sehnt sie sich an die idyllischen Orte ihrer Kindheit zurück: Wilde Singschwäne und Zugvögel will sie sehen, keine Tauben und Plastikeulen auf Nachbarbalkonen! Doch was muss passieren, damit Sonja ihr Schicksal in die Hand nimmt?
