Jens Christian Grondahl, Author , trans. from the Danish by Anne Born. Harcourt $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-100594-9
As melancholy, autumnal and finely calibrated as a Bergman film, this second novel by Grondahl (Silence in October) meticulously chronicles the separate past loves of a doctor and his patient, and their shared present detachment. Lucca Montale, an...
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Jens Christian Grondahl, Author, Anne Born, Translator , trans. from the Danish by Anne Born. Harcourt $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-15-100399-0
This spare new novel by acclaimed Danish author Grøndahl tells the story of a dissolving marriage in a complex, elliptical and moving way. At the book's start, a Danish art historian wakes up in Copenhagen to find that his wife, Astrid,...
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Jens Christian Grondahl, Author, Anne Born, Translator , trans. from the Danish by Anne Born. Harcourt $25 (271p) ISBN 978-0-15-101043-1
Irene Beckman, a 56-year-old Copenhagen lawyer, embarks on a journey of self-discovery after her husband, Martin, takes up with a younger woman in Grøndahl's latest novel, a thoughtful, probing and fiercely introspective character study....
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Jens Christian Grondahl, trans. from the Danish by the author. Twelve, $23 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4555-7007-2
In Danish novelist Grondahl’s stunning latest, a recently widowed 70-year-old woman reexamines her life and past decisions with sagacity and aplomb. The novel is written in the form of a letter from Ellinor to her long-deceased best friend, Anna,...
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