World Literature - Denmark
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A Fortunate Man
$29.95 Add to cartA Nobel Prize-winner’s unforgettable novel about a man who sheds the stifling country life of his childhood for the excitement of Copenhagen.
This masterpiece of Danish literature, admired by the like- Author: Pontoppidan, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379279
- Language: English
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Visions and Temptations
$15.95 Add to cartSpurning carnal desire and earthly temptations all his life, the mystic Othlo is now in the care of his brother monks including the odious and semen-filled Wolkbart. Despite the spare walls which surr
- Author: Voetmann, Harald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0811229807
- Language: English
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The White Bear
$16.95 Add to cartLove, faith, and the political mingle in these two short novels by a Nobel Prize-winning Danish author. One about a young couple making a new life in Rome, the other about a priest who goes to live am… [more below]
- Author: Pontoppidan, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379295
- Language: English
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Natalja’s Stories
$14.95 Add to cartKnown primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark’s most distinguished and original authors. Natalja’s Stories, modeled after Boccaccio’s Decameron, takes an usual a… [more below]
- Author: Christensen, Inger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 811239462
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
$17.00 Read moreThe Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, “a terrifying talent” (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times).
A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a s- Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863104
- Language: English
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What Kingdom
$18.00 Add to cart“An incredibly moving and gripping novel . . . so sure-footed, clear, vibrating, like chiffon or a cigarette.” — Olga Ravn
An incandescent debut about young adults learning how to care for themselves- Author: Grabol, Fine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1953861849
- Language: English
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The Liar
$16.95 Read moreDelicately attuned to the complexities of both the natural world and human psychology, this potent classic of twentieth-century Danish literature is narrated by an isolated schoolteacher stuck in a mi
- Author: Hansen, Martin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377187
- Language: English
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My Mother Says
$17.99 Read more“Reeling from a breakup, a young Danish woman recovers her sense of self through conversations with parents, friends, and strangers. A sweet and quirky debut about heartbreak, memory, and the endless … [more below]
- Author: Pilgaard, Stine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 164286126X
- Language: English
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Sublunar
$15.95 Add to cartA great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world’s most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants–a filthy cast of characters–Sublunar is both novel an… [more below]
- Author: Voetmann, Harald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0811229785
- Language: English
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The Love of Singular Men
$15.95 Read moreIn the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, one summer in the 1970s, a family–a husband and wife, their daughter, and their crippled teenage son Camilo–take in an orphan named Cosme. The boys unexpectedly fal
- Author: Heringer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: 5-Sep-23
- ISBN10: 0811237478
- Language: English
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My Work
$18.95 Add to cartAfter giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compu
- Author: Ravn, Olga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0811234711
- Language: English
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The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
$14.95 Add to cartNow in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. … [more below]
- Author: Ravn, Olga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0811234827
- Language: English
