Description: From one of Scandinavia's finest and best-loved novelists comes a startlingly intimate and powerful portrait about the fragile, yet irrevocable bond between a young girl and her dying mother
Brief description:
Helle Helle was born in Denmark in 1965. She is a graduate of the Danish Academy of Creative Writing and the author of a number of novels, as well as two collections of short stories. She has received numerous awards, including The Critics' Prize and The Golden Laurel. She is one of Scandinavia's foremost writers, with a career spanning three dacades, from her debut Example of Life (1993) to her most recent novel Hey Hafni, forthcoming from New Directions in the fall of 2027. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages.
Review Quotes: In her new novel, they, translated by Martin Aitken, the Danish writer Helle Helle captures with uncanny grace the relationship between an unnamed mother and her sixteen-year-old daughter following the former's cancer diagnosis... A world of loss and lyricism follows.--Brian Dillon "4Columns"