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Title:
When death takes something from you give it back : Carl's book / Naja Marie Aidt ; translated by Denise Newman.
Author:
Aidt, Naja Marie, 1963- author.

Newman, Denise J., translator.
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019.
Call Number:
PT8176.1.I37 H3713 2019
Abstract:
"In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call, until the shock slowly wears off. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms your relationship to reality, your loved ones, and time--and a book about the language of poetry, loss, and love. How do you approach the impossible to write about your deceased child? The book's complex form enacts the rupture and process of assembling the pieces. There are short prose sections addressed to Carl and intense lyric passages. There are fragments from the present that merge with flashbacks and journal entries from the past. Quotes appear throughout from an array of literary voices, woven together with Naja Marie Aidt's own voice. This multifarious book defies genre or any singular description"-- Provided by publisher.
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
ISBN:
9781566895606
Physical Description:
133 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
"First published in Danish as Har døden taget noget fra dig så giv det tilbage: Carls bog (Gyldendal 2017)."
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Uniform Title:
Har døden taget noget fra dig så giv det tilbage. English
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