What Kingdom
Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken.
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- Paperback published on 24/10/2024
- Page count: 152 pages
- ISBN: 9781915267276
Synopsis
Fine Gråbøl’s narrator dreams of furniture flickering to life. A chair that greets you, shiny tiles that follow a peculiar grammar, or a bookshelf that can be thrown on like an apron. Obsessed with the way items rise up out of their thingness, assuming personalities and private motives, the nameless narrator lives in a temporary psychiatric care unit for young people in Copenhagen.
This is a place where you ‘wake up and realise that what’s going to happen has no name’, and days are spent practicing routines that take on the urgency of survival – peeling a carrot, drinking prune juice, listening through thin walls. In prose that demands that you slow down, expertly translated by Martin Aitken, What Kingdom charts a wisdom of its own.
About the author
FINE GRÅBØL (b. 1992) made her debut in 2021 with What Kingdom, a novel which earned her the Bogforum Debut Prize. Prior to this, she published a collection of poetry, Bone-marrow Lavender (2018), together with the writing collective BMS. What Kingdom has been translated into seven languages and her second novel, Arise, was recently published in Denmark.
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