A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast - Couverture rigide

Nors, Dorthe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1782277951 ISBN 13 : 9781782277958

Editeur : Pushkin Press, 2022

Synopsis

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. There is a line that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to where the Wadden Sea meets Holland in the south-west. Dorthe Nors, one of Denmark's most acclaimed writers, is a descendant of this line; for generations, her family lived among the storm-battered trees and wind-blasted beaches of the North Sea coast. Returning after decades of inhabiting cities, she chronicles a year spent travelling up and down the coast, tracing the history and geography of the places she visits and untangling her relationship with the landscape she calls home. This is the story of the violent collisions between the people who live in these wild places and the vagaries of the natural world. It is a story of shipwrecks and storm surges, of cold-water surfers, sun-creased beach mums and resolute sailor's wives. In spellbinding prose, Nors invites the reader on a journey through history and memory - the landscape's as well as her own.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Dorthe Nors is one of Denmark's most distinctive contemporary writers and the first Danish author to be published in The New Yorker. Her work has appeared in numerous international publications including Harper's, The Guardian, the BBC and more. Nors is the author of several acclaimed books including Karate Chop (winner of the P.O. Enquist Literary Prize), Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal-shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize-and Wild Swims, all published in English by Pushkin Press. Her recent nonfiction A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing. Born in rural Jutland, she now lives by the North Sea coast.

Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, Norwegian and German. She lives and works in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pushkin Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782277951
• ISBN 13: 9781782277958
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible