A line in the world

Nors, Dorthe

£9.99

There is a line that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to where the Wadden Sea meets Holland in the south-west. Dorthe Nors, one of Denmark’s most acclaimed contemporary writers, grew up on this line; a native Jutlander, her childhood was spent among the storm-battered trees and windblasted beaches of the North Sea coast. In ‘A Line in the World,’ her first book of non-fiction, she recounts a lifetime spent in thrall to this coastline – both as a child, and as an adult returning to live in this mysterious, shifting landscape. This is the story of the violent collisions between the people who settled in these wild landscapes and the vagaries of the natural world. It is a story of storm surges and shipwrecks, sand dunes that engulf houses and power stations leaching chemicals into the water, of sun-creased mothers and children playing on shingle beaches.

Out of stock

Publish Date: 07/09/2023
ISBN: 9781782277972 Category: Tags: ,

Additional information

Dimensions 198 × 129 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

240

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

948.95 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K