Harald Voetmann: Vågen (Awake)
The latest addition to my website is Harald Voetmann's Vågen (Awake). Voetmann is a classicist and this book is about Pliny the Elder, famous for his Natural History, an early…
The latest addition to my website is Harald Voetmann's Vågen (Awake). Voetmann is a classicist and this book is about Pliny the Elder, famous for his Natural History, an early…
The latest addition to my website is Suzanne Brøgger's Jadekatten (Jade Cat). This is the family saga of the Løvin family, a Danish-Jewish highly dysfunctional family. The focus is on…
The latest addition to my website is Peter Adolphsen's Brummstein (The Brummstein). Though a Danish writer, Adolphsen sets his book mainly in Switzerland and Germany. It tells the story of…
The latest addition to my website is Peter Adolphsen's Machine (Machine). This is another short but very inventive novel from Adolphsen. We follow the life of an oil molecule, from…
The latest addition to my website is Janne Teller's Hvis der var krig i Norden (War). This is a story that imagines that it is the Danes that become refugees…
We have just returned from our continuing tour of East European capitals - the third this year and the fifth in the past two years - with a visit to…
The latest addition to my website is Hans Scherfig's Det forsømte forår (Stolen Spring), a book probably written before but published after Den forsvundne fuldmægtig (The Missing Bureaucrat) but which…
The latest addition to my website is Hans Scherfig's Den forsvundne fuldmægtig (The Missing Bureaucrat). This novel takes the form of a detective story, when two men in Copenhagen are…