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by Naja Marie Aidt
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Naja Marie Aidt, Denise Newman (Translator)Publish date:2019-09-03Pages:152
Language:EnglishPublisher:Coffee House PressISBN-13:9781566895606ISBN-10:156689560XUPC:9781566895606Book Category:Family & Relationships, Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Death, Grief, Bereavement, European, Personal MemoirsBook Topic:ScandinavianAward:2019 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation Award|2019 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Nonfiction AwardSize:7.80 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC6K7VYGHF

An unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother's grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language.
Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Translation


In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love.


Intensely moving, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back explores what is it to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death's indomitable resolve.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Coffee House PressISBN-13:9781566895606ISBN-10:156689560XUPC:9781566895606Book Category:Family & Relationships, Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Death, Grief, Bereavement, European, Personal MemoirsBook Topic:ScandinavianAward:2019 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation Award|2019 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Nonfiction AwardSize:7.80 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC6K7VYGHF

Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, including Baboon, which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize, Scandinavia's highest literary honor. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.


Denise Newman is a translator and poet who has published four collections of poetry. She has translated two books by Denmark's Inger Christensen. Her translation of Naja Marie Aidt's short story collection Baboon won the 2015 PEN Translation Prize.



Publisher: Coffee House Press

Awards

🏆 2019 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation Award|2019 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Nonfiction Award

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Naja Marie Aidt, Denise Newman (Translator)

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Naja Marie Aidt

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