Fiction. Translated from the Danish by Tara Chace. Taking its title from Kurt Schwitter's fanatical love poem "To Anna Blume," BELOVED OF MY TWENTY-SEVEN SENSES depicts a sensory realm so advanced that our mere six senses simply aren't enough to truly perceive the world. At the age of 71, geologist Clemens Carlsen has set out into the Libyan Desert. His wife Anna hasgone after him. No one knows where they are or why they're there. A search party has been sent to look for them. In a hotelin a desert town in Egypt, their son Tore is waiting. As he sifts through his parents' old journals, photographs, and scientific notes, their lives unfold before him; he discovers where they are and why. Karen Fastrup was born in 1967 and lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She made her authorial debut in 2000 with the novel Bronden (The Well).
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Höhe: 226 mm
Breite: 150 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-1-897388-20-4 (9781897388204)
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KAREN FASTRUP is the author of several novels, including Beloved of My Twenty-seven Senses. Her book Hunger Heart, originally published in Denmark in 2018, was shortlisted for the DR's Novel Prize in 2019. Femina Magazine named Fastrup one of the seven most remarkable women in Denmark in 2019, and the year's "Taboo Breaker" for the awareness Hunger Heart created around mental illness. Fastrup has also translated more than fifty novels into Danish by such notable authors as Sally Rooney, Karl Ove Knausgård, August Strindberg, Linn Ullmann, Vigdis Hjorth, and Per Petterson. Fastrup lives in Copenhagen.
