Tanja is fourteen, growing up in a family of artists deep in the Swedish forest, hours away from Copenhagen where she was born and feels at home. With her parents preoccupied by her father's painting career and their turbulent marriage, she's left alone with her longings and dreams, restless for an alluring adult world just beyond reach.
Then at a gallery opening, Tanja meets the celebrated writer Eg, a charismatic family friend in his mid-forties. He snaps a photo of Tanja with her own camera and makes her swear she'll post him the print. Soon, Eg begins writing long, lyrical letters, enchanting her with fairytales and telling her that their first meeting was destined, that their love defies bourgeois norms.
But this encounter with sexuality becomes a bewildering, painful awakening: a seduction that will mark Tanja and force her to confront the art world that quietly enabled her abuse. Written with courage and precision, this is a daring novel about a young girl's loss of innocence and the betrayal of those who surround her.
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Verlagsort
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80533-382-1 (9781805333821)
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Ulrikka S. Gernes is a Danish writer and acclaimed poet. She made her debut as a poet in 1984 and has written various collections of poetry since. She was longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2016 and became a member of the jury for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2019. She is also the author of several children's books and the recipient of multiple grants from the Danish Arts Foundation. A Girl Left the Room marks her debut as a novelist and became a Danish bestseller. Ulrikka is also chairman and curator for Klara Karoline's Fund, an art foundation founded by her parents, artists Aase Seidler Gernes and Poul Gernes. She has a grown-up daughter and currently lives in Copenhagen in an apartment filled with art and books.
