A line in the world : a year on the North Sea coast / Dorthe Nors ; translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight ; with illustrations by Signe Parkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nors, Dorthe, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Waight, Caroline, translator.

Parkins, Signe, 1979- illustrator.

Standardized Title:

Linje i verden. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

Jutland (Denmark)--History.

Jutland (Denmark).

Jutland (Denmark)--Social life and customs.

Nors, Dorthe, 1970---Homes and haunts.

Nors, Dorthe.

Nors, Dorthe, 1970-.

Homes.

Manners and customs.

Denmark--Jutland.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pushkin Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the Danish.

Summary:

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 wind-blasted 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. In this singularly thrilling work, Nors invites the reader on a journey through history and memory - the landscape's as well as her own.

Notes:

Maps on endpapers.

First published as "En linje i verden" by Gads Forlag in Denmark, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781782277958

1782277951

OCLC:

1289735961

Publisher Number:

99994980280