Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
Longlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Award
An unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother’s grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language.In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt’s twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love. Intensely moving, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back explores what it is to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death’s indomitable resolve.
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
Longlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Award
An unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother’s grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language.In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt’s twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love. Intensely moving, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back explores what it is to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death’s indomitable resolve.
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
152When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
152Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781566895934 |
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Publisher: | Coffee House Press |
Publication date: | 04/06/2021 |
Pages: | 152 |
Sales rank: | 1,050,492 |
Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d) |