A Change of Time
Published on 16. April 2019
250 pages
978-1-939810-18-2 (ISBN)
Description
A penetrating study of a woman who, in the wake of her domineering husband's death, must embrace her newfound freedom and redefine herself.
Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence.
Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence.
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Ida Jessen is the author of A Change of Time (En Ny Tid), which received the Blixen Prize and Danish Radio's Best Novel Prize, as well as several bestselling and award-winning novels. A member of the Danish Academy, she is known as a master of psychological realism. She has also translated the work of Marilynne Robinson and Alice Munro into Danish.
About the translator: Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hanne Ørstavik, Peter Høeg, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Pia Juul, and his translations of short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary journals and magazines. In 2012 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Translation Prize.
About the translator: Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hanne Ørstavik, Peter Høeg, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Pia Juul, and his translations of short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary journals and magazines. In 2012 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Translation Prize.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Diary of L. Høy Schoolteacher
- January 3, 1904
- May 19, 1905
- October 8, 1927, Thyregod
- October 9
- October 10
- October 11
- October 12
- October 13
- October 14
- October 15
- October 16
- October 17
- October 18
- October 19
- October 20
- October 21
- November 1
- Hallow-Eve
- November 4
- November 10
- November 12
- November 20
- November 21
- November 23
- November 25
- November 27
- November 28
- November 30
- December 1
- December 2
- December 3
- December 4
- Rose Cottage, February 5, 1928
- February 6
- February 8
- February 9
- February 11
- February 12
- February 13
- February 14
- February 18
- February 25
- April 19, 1929
- May 2
- May 17
- May 22
- November 1, 1932
- Acknowledgements
