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Iron lung / Kristine Reffstrup ; translated from the Danish by Hunter Simpson.
Van Pelt Library PT8952.28.E36 J4713 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reffstrup, Kirstine, 1979- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Jernlungen. English
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poliomyelitis--Patients--Denmark--Fiction.
- Poliomyelitis.
- Intersex children--Hungary--Fiction.
- Intersex children.
- Adolescence--Fiction.
- Adolescence.
- Children--Institutional care--Fiction.
- Children.
- Physical Description:
- 269 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Peirene Press Ltd, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A girl is struck down by polio during the terrifying epidemic of the early 1950s. Paralysed and unable to breathe on her own, she is committed to hospital in Copenhagen and placed in an iron lung. Forty years earlier, near Budapest, a child grows up in an orphanage for boys. The child goes by the name of 'Boy' but is not like the others, as their body seems to transcend the categories of boy or girl. Between these two young people there is a powerful, enigmatic bond that stretches across time and space."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Translation of Jernlungen, first published in 2023 by Forlaget Oktober.
- ISBN:
- 9781916806047
- 191680604X
- OCLC:
- 1473796637
- Publisher Number:
- 90104845004
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