Books set in Denmark (10)


1.

Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen EN

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in ‘Tempests’, a mysterious pearl-fisher in ‘The Diver’ and a brief, tragic encounter in ‘The Ring’. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last t... continue

2.

Beowulf by Unknown EN

Rating: 3.3     3 Votes
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Beowulf, by Anonymous, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences?biographical, historical, and literary?to enrich each reader's understanding of thes... continue
Recommended: 16 Sep 2022

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Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen EN

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
'Effortlessly cool, funny yet sad, breezy but thoughtful - this is an edgy and unputdownable work of modern literature' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Crimson is written with immense courage - there's no faking the feeling of honesty on each page. It is a brave novel reminiscent of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting' Laline Paull, author of The Bees The island has run out of oxygen. The island is swollen. The island is rotten. The island has taken my beloved from me. The island is a Greenlander. It's the fault of the Greenlander. In Nuuk, Greenland . . . Fia breaks up with her long-term boyfriend an... continue
Genre Adult
Recommended: 11 Sep 2022


5.
Om utregning av romfang

Om utregning av romfang by Solvej Balle NO

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Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
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Recommended: 03 Mar 2023

6.
Silence in October

Silence in October by Jens Christian Grondahl EN

Rating: 3.7     3 Votes
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
Stunned when his wife of eighteen years leaves him with no explanation, an art historian struggles to make sense of his life and marriage and begins to realize that two people can live together for years without ever really knowing each other, in the American debut novel by an acclaimed Danish author. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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Recommended: 21 Nov 2022

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Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg EN

Rating: 4     6 Votes
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps ... continue
Recommended: 04 Sep 2022

8.
The Collector

The Collector by Anne Mette Hancock EN

Rating: 3.6     6 Votes
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
For fans of Katrine Engberg and Lars Kepler, the second chilling novel in Anne Mette Hancock’s #1 bestselling Danish crime series is a psychological whirlwind that explores the nature of truth and what it means when we can no longer trust what we know to be real. When 10-year-old Lukas disappears from his Copenhagen school, police investigators discover that the boy had a peculiar obsession with pareidolia—a phenomenon that makes him see faces in random things. A photo on his phone posted just hours before his disappearance shows an old barn door that resembles a face. Journalist Heloise Kalda... continue
Recommended: 29 Nov 2022

9.

The Dinosaur Feather by Sissel-Jo Gazan EN

Rating: 3     9 Votes
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue lying on his bloodied shirtfront, a copy of her thesis in his lap. Police Superintendent Søren Marhauge is assigned to unravel what appears to be a multitude of intrigues in the Biology Department of Copenhagen University. Helland had been deliberately infected with a rare parasite that only an expert in the field would have access to. But when Anna Bella's fellow graduate and close friend is also killed, the mu... continue
Recommended: 03 Jan 2018

10.
We, the Drowned

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen EN

Rating: 4     16 Votes
Country: Europe / Denmark flag Denmark
Description:
Follows a century in the port town of Marstal on an island off the coast of Denmark, whose citizens' lives are indelibly shaped by forces ranging from wars and shipwrecks to taboo survival practices and forbidden passions.
Recommended: 26 Jan 2023


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