Memorial, 29 June
Translated from Danish by Misha Hoekstra.
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- Hardback published on 02/02/2023
- Page count: 330 pages
- ISBN: 9781915267115
Quick take
Asta is invited to a memorial. It's been ten years since her university friend August died. The invitation disrupts everything - the novel she is working on and friendship with Mai and her two-year-old son - reanimating longings, doubts, and the ghosts of parties past.
Synopsis
Soon a new story begins to take shape. Not of the obscure Polish sculptor Asta wanted to write about, but of what really happened the night of August's death, and in the stolen, exuberant days leading up to it. The story she has never dared reveal to Mai.
Moving between Asta's past and present, Memorial, 29 June is a novel about who we really are, and who we thought we would become. It's a novel about the intensity with which we experience the world in our twenties, and how our ambitions, anxieties, and memories from that time never relinquish their grasp on how we encounter our future. In prose that shimmers like poetry, masterfully translated by Misha Hoekstra, Memorial, 29 June is an urgent yet tender reminder that sometimes pain is where the love is, and that grief, however thorny, should never go unspoken.
About the author
Tine Høeg (b. 1985) is a Danish writer whose debut novel, Nye Rejsende (New Passengers), won Bogforum's Debutantpris, the Danish prize for the year's best debut work of literary fiction.
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