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Dorthe Nors,Henrik Saxgren

North Sea

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
An exhilarating, moving account of life on the wild Danish coast, from one of Denmark's most acclaimed writers
'A beautiful, melancholy account of finding home on a restless coast' Katherine May, author of Wintering
This is the story of the windswept coastline that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to the Netherlands, a world of shipwrecks and storm surges, of cold-water surfers and resolute sailors' wives. In spellbinding prose, award-winning writer Dorthe Nors invites the reader to travel through the landscape where her family lived for generations and which she now calls home. It is an extraordinarily powerful and beautiful journey through history and memory — the landscape's as well as her own.

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FURTHER PRAISE FOR A LINE IN THE WORLD
'A place brimming with memories and strangeness, where storms surge and lighthouses blink… fascinating' Financial Times
'A singular prose stylist… Nors is such a great companion, honest and curious and surprising' Max Porter, author of Lanny
'Brilliant… a personal, poetic meditation on this remote edge of windswept landscapes and wildwaters' New York Times
'The perfect winter read, making a virtue of dark nights and frost-bitten winds on the author's native North Sea coast' Observer
'A deep dive into a coastal landscape, both breathtaking and hypnotic' Natasha Carthew, author of Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience
192 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2022
Publication year
2022
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Translator
Caroline Waight
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  • SashaBayrakov Shas quotedlast year
    But that’s just one side of the coin, Kerstin, I think. The other is this: the place you come from is not somewhere you can ever return. It no longer exists, and you have become a stranger. Too urbanized, too acculturated, too loud to assimilate, but all identity is formed in the schism.
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    ‘I have come here often,’ she writes. ‘A whole childhood, every single day. All these arrivals are false, because in reality I was born here. Here I can do nothing but return.’
  • SashaBayrakov Shas quotedlast year
    A horizon is what I want, and I want solitude. Healthy solitude, and I want intimacy, true intimacy. I no longer want to be anyone but myself.

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