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/100
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41/100Critics
96/100Scholars
Author:
Dorthe Nors, Caroline Waight
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Date:
November 1, 2022
A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of the world.
What The Reviewers Say
Nors, known primarily as a fiction writer, here embarks on a languorous and evocative tour of her native Denmark.
Who else could have done justice to this wild landscape, the stubborn psyche of its inhabitants, its brutal myths and its toxic industry?.
The resulting travelogue captures a side to Denmark that few will find familiar — the literal and figurative opposite of the country’s cosmopolitan capital, Copenhagen.
For readers whose knowledge of Denmark is confined to Copenhagen and its environs, Danish writer Dorthe Nors's A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast will come as a revelation. In 14 eloquent, observant essays that combine journalism, nature writing and memoir, Nors paints a vivid portrait of a remote and rugged territory whose striking scenery masks more than its share of dangers.
