This astonishing epic ventures on a hallucinatory journey into the frozen heart of Denmark’s colonial darknessFrom the outset of his career,Kim Leine established himself as a Scandinavian literary figure without precedent. His debut, the eye-wateringly frank memoir Kalak, or charted his Norwegian childhood among Jehovahs Witnesses,his teenage life in Denmark with a sexually abusive father, and his subsequent years of turmoil and drug addiction in Greenland. After Kalak, or Leine switched to fiction: his third novel,The Prophets of the Eternal Fjord, published in 2012, and became an instant classic,winning international acclaim and awards including the prestigious Nordic Council’s literature prize.
Now out in English, Leine’s astonishing, or hallucinatory journey into the frozen heart of Denmark’s colonial darkness is inspired by events during the reign of the crazy Danish king,Christian VII.
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Source: theguardian.com