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A Fairy Tale
In a Europe without borders, where social norms have become fragile, a son must confront the sins of his father and grandfather, and invent new strategies for survival A young boy grows up with a loving father who has little respect for the law. They are always on the run, and as they move from place to place, the boy is often distraught to leave behind new friendships. Because it would be dicey for him to go to school, his anarchistic father gives him an unconventional education intended to contradict as much as possible the teachings of his own father, a preacher and a pervert. Ten years later, when the boy is entering adulthood, with a fake name and a monotonous job, he tries to conform to the demands of ordinary life, but the lessons of the past thwart his efforts, and questions about his father’s childhood cannot be left unanswered. Spanning the mid-1980s to early-twenty-first-century in Copenhagen, this coming-of-age novel examines what it means to be a stranger in the modern world, and how, for better or for worse, a father’s legacy is never passed on in any predictable fashion.
Copenhagen Noir
Joining Rome, Paris, Istanbul, London and Dublin as European hosts of the Akashic Noir series, Copenhagen Noir features brand-new stories from a top-notch crew of Danish writers, with several Swedish and Norwegian writers thrown into the mix. This volume definitively reveals why Scandinavian crime fiction has come to be so popular across the world. Features stories by Helle Helle, Benn Q. Holm, Klaus Rifbjerg, Naja Marie Aidt, Gretelise Holm and many more.
A Fairy Tale
WINNER OF THE MARTIN ANDERSEN NEXØ LITERARY AWARD FEBRUARY 2014 WINNER OF BOOKWORLD'S BOOK OF THE MONTH PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR DANISH RADIO LITERATURE'S BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR PRIZE March, 1986: the Swedish prime minister, Olof Palme, has been assassinated, and a young boy and his father are on the move again. Travelling from Sweden to the outskirts of Denmark and into the heart of Copenhagen, the two live an itinerant life on the margins of society. The father, an eccentric, restless man, takes a series of odd jobs — from making antique furniture, to landscaping, to working as a bouncer at a strip club. By day, he home-schools his son. At night, he weaves a fairy tale about a prince and a...
Dark Pedagogy
Dark pedagogy explores how different perspectives can be incorporated into a darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education. Drawing on the work of the classic horror author H.P. Lovecraft and new materialist insights of speculative realism, the authors link Lovecraft’s ‘tales of the horrible’ to the current spectres of environmental degradation, climate change, and pollution. In doing so, they draw parallels between how humans have always related to the ‘horrible’ things that are scaled beyond our understanding and how education can respond to an era of climate catastrophe in the age of the Anthropocene. A new and darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education is thus developed: using the tripartite reaction pattern of denial, insanity and death to frame the narrative, the book subsequently examines the specific challenges of potentials of developing education and pedagogy for an age of mass extinction. This unflinching book will appeal to students and scholars of dark pedagogies as well as those interested in environment and sustainability education.
Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction
Since the late 1960s, the novels of Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck detective series, along with the works of Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser and Stieg Larsson, have sparked an explosion of Nordic crime fiction--grim police procedurals treating urgent sociopolitical issues affecting the contemporary world. Steeped in noir techniques and viewpoints, many of these novels are reaching international audiences through film and television adaptations. This reference guide introduces the world of Nordic crime fiction to English-speaking readers. Caught between the demands of conscience and societal strictures, the detectives in these stories--like the heroes of Norse mythology--know that they and their world must perish, but fight on regardless of cost. At a time of bleak eventualities, Nordic crime fiction interprets the bitter end as a celebration of the indomitable human spirit.
Geometry of Quantum States
This new edition describes the space of quantum states and the theory of quantum entanglement from a geometric perspective.
Up at the Villa
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Up at the Villa" by W. Somerset Maugham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Tylko matka
Kameralna i nastrojowa opowieść o życiu w powojennej Norwegii Po długiej podróży przez Norwegię Ingrid w końcu wróciła do Barrøy. Życie się ustabilizowało, ale wojna nadal rzuca długie cienie na cały kraj. Wkrótce na maleńką wyspę przypływa pięcioletni Mathias. Jego ojciec znika w tajemniczych okolicznościach, a Ingrid decyduje się przygarnąć dziecko. Życie zaczyna się teraz toczyć wokół nowego mieszkańca. Tymczasem odcięta od świata Ingrid z listów od przyjaciół dowiaduje się, jak dramatyczne zmiany zachodzą właśnie w powojennej Norwegii. Co powinna zachować dla siebie, a o czym odważy się powiedzieć bliskim? Czwarty tom doskonale przyjętej przez czytelników sagi Barrøy opowiada o wyzwaniach macierzyństwa, ciężkiej, samotnej pracy i życiu w cieniu bolesnych wspomnień.
Powiedziała, że nie żałuje
Przenikliwe i zaskakujące spojrzenie na wojnę oczami kobiet. Obie decyzje, o pozostaniu i ruszeniu w dalszą drogę, były tak samo trudne, choć wymagały od kobiet innego rodzaju siły. Jednakowo trudno było patrzeć na coraz słabiej widoczne plecy tych, które poszły dalej, co na niknące na tle krajobrazu sylwetki tych, które zostały. Jest wiosna 1945 roku, świat zmienia się nieodwracalnie. Na granicy norwesko-fińskiej pięć kobiet wyrusza z obozu jenieckiego w kierunku Finlandii. Wędrując przez zniszczone tereny Laponii, widzą brutalne skutki wojny, która odcisnęła piętno na miejscowych krajobrazach i ludności. Zmieniła też bohaterki. Kilka lat wcześniej każda z n...
Who Speaks for the Poor?
Explains cross-national differences in the political and partisan representation of low-income voters, focusing attention on the electoral geography of income.
