Companions
Translated from Danish by Paul Russell Garrett.
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- Paperback published on 24/04/2018
- Page count: 400 pages
- ISBN: 9781910695333
Quick take
Companions draws together Hesselholdt's four short novels centring on a young woman, Camilla, and her circle of friends.
Synopsis
Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian are a circle of friends hurtling through mid-life. Structured as a series of monologues jumping from one friend to the next, COMPANIONS follows their loves, ambitions, pains and anxieties as they age, fall sick, have affairs, grieve, host dinner parties and move between the Lake District, Berlin, Lisbon, Belgrade, Mozambique, New York and, of course, Denmark. In her first book to be translated into English, Christina Hesselholdt explores everyday life, the weight of the past and the difficulty of intimacy in a uniquely playful and experimental style.
At once deeply comic and remarkably insightful, COMPANIONS is an exhilarating portrait of life in the twenty-first century.
About the author
Christina Hesselholdt, born in 1962, studied at the Danish Academy of Creative Writing in Copenhagen. Her first novel, Køkkenet, Gravkammeret & Landskabet [The Kitchen, the Tomb & the Landscape], was published in 1991.
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