Norw

The literary landscape of Cecilie Holck’s debut is wildly realistic, absurd, poetic, macabre, un-matter-of-factly and coolly reporting at the same time.

Here we find a reality where new security, lifesaving trinkets, patented dragonflies and spheric dialogues make up everyday life, a world inhabited by people with a magical world view, an irrepressible spirit, a slightly peculiar relationship towards death and an unshakable belief that the world can be categorized and understood. Our truths and ways of thinking and speaking are put to the test in the holckian universe – not least because it indicates how close our images of the world at times are to fiction.

Praise for NORW:

“Experimental, peculiar and completely absurd … Holck’s debut is first and foremost original: Remarkably conceived, innovatively written and confidently executed.”
(Dagbladet)

“varied, critical, fantastic and above all original. In other words a successful debut which deserves to be noticed.”
(Bergens tidende)

First published: 2009, Aschehoug
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