Short story books from Denmark
Recommended short story books (8)
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If you are into short story here are some short story books from Denmark for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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According to the Law : Four Accounts of Mankind by Solvej Balle EN
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Short stories on obsession. A doctor is obsessed with cutting up a body in just the right manner, a physicist to experience the state of nothingness, a woman to grasp the essence of pain, and a painter to fuse with the object she is painting. By a Danish writer.
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Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen EN
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These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in ‘Tempests’, a mysterious pearl-fisher in ‘The Diver’ and a brief, tragic encounter in ‘The Ring’. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last t... continue
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Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt's stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes of sex, love, desire, and gender, Aidt pushes them into her own desperate, frantic realm. In one, a whore shows up unannounced at a man's apartment, roosts in his living room, and then violently threatens him when he tries to make her leave. In another, a wife takes her husband to a city where it is women, not men, who are the dominant sex-but was it all a hallucination when she finds herself tied ... continue
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Reis naar een donker hart by Peter Hoeg NL
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Op 18 maart 1929 vindt de inwijding van de spoorlijn van Kabinda naar Katanga plaats. De jonge Deen David Rehn is daarbij aanwezig.
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The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen EN
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The emperor shows his stupidity when he walks through the city in the invisible suit two rascal tailors made for him.
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The Tinder Box by Hans Christian Andersen EN
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Andersen's bittersweet fairy tales propelled their troubled author to international fame and revolutionized children's writing.
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The Trouble with Happiness : And Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen EN
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The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, “a terrifying talent” (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times). A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in midcentury Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happy—without ever truly unde... continue
