Kvinden Der Samlede Verden
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Kvinden der samlede verden
Et psykologisk drama om en af det 20. århundredes mest betydningsfulde videnskabskvinder. KVINDEN DER SAMLEDE VERDEN er Eva Tinds biografiske roman om den danske zoolog Marie Hammer (1907-2002), der igennem 40 år rejser jorden rundt ene kvinde med ét formål: Hun vil bevise, at verdens kontinenter på et tidspunkt har været forenet. Samtidig har hun en drøm om en familie. Men stik imod tidens normer insisterer hun på, at hendes mand aldrig må stille sig i vejen for hendes forskning. Som den første kvinde er hun med på Knud Rasmussens 7. Thule-ekspedition i 1932. Siden rejser hun selv midler til sine månedlange ekspeditioner, og doktordisputatsen skriver hun som ulønnet forsker hjemme fra køkkenbordet med fire børn omkring sig. På verdenskortet i scrapbogen føjer hun nye rejseruter til sit erobringstogt. Først 30 år efter sin første ekspedition ændrer Marie Hammer verdenshistorien. I kraft af sine vedholdende bestræbelser lykkes det hende at samle verden, men samtidig må hun erkende, at familien i hendes fravær har slået sprækker. KVINDEN DER SAMLEDE VERDEN er historien om en enestående og fantastisk videnskabskvindes forbundethed med naturen og længsel efter at sætte spor i verdenshistorien. Om menneskelige ambitioner, familie, kærlighed, afkald og forsoning – af verden og mellem mennesker.
Death Drives An Audi
Kristian Bang Foss's darkly comic, prize-winning road-novel satire sees two unlikely friends set out to defy the Danish welfare state – and Death himself – with both hilarious and tragic consequences. Life is looking pretty bleak for Asger. After a fiasco at work finds him unceremoniously booted from both his advertising job and his family home, he finds himself the carer of Waldemar, arguably Denmark's sickest man. Their initial days together in a Copenhagen ghetto only serve to pile on the hopelessness. But then Waldemar hatches a plan: fabled healer Torbi el Mekki offers a miracle cure to all who seek an audience. Only thing is, he's in Morocco – over two thousand miles and another continent away. Piling into a beaten up Volkswagen, the two set off on a zany road trip across Europe towards a dubious salvation. But it soon seems they may have unwanted company, for on their tail is a pitch-black Audi...
We, the Drowned
Author: Carsten Jensen
language: en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date: 2011-02-09
Explore the wondrous sea and the oddities of human nature in this international bestselling, thrilling epic novel of a Danish port town. Hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation; there are cannibals here, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, and miraculous survivals. The result is a brilliant seafaring novel, a gripping saga encompassing industrial growth, the years of expansion and exploration, the crucible of the first half of the twentieth century, and most of all, the sea. Called “one of the most exciting authors in Nordic literature” by Henning Mankell, Carsten Jensen has worked as a literary critic and a journalist, reporting from China, Cambodia, Latin America, the Pacific Islands, and Afghanistan. He lives in Copenhagen and Marstal. “We, the Drowned sets sail beyond the narrow channels of the seafaring genre and approaches Tolstoy in its evocation of war’s confusion, its power to stun victors and vanquished alike…A gorgeous, unsparing novel.”—Washington Post “A generational saga, a swashbuckling sailor’s tale, and the account of a small town coming into modernity—both Melville and Steinbeck might have been pleased to read it.”—New Republic “Dozens of stories coalesce into an odyssey taut with action and drama and suffused with enough heart to satisfy readers who want more than the breakneck thrills of ships battling the elements.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)