Natalja's Stories

This is the story of a young woman who is spirited away to St. Petersburg from Copenhagen by a lovestruck admirer. When she dies after the Russian Revolution, her ashes are carried back to Denmark, igniting a chain reaction of further stories, told and retold by the women in her family against a shifting ground of meaning. We meet murderers and fable-like characters, such as the hilarious and unsettling Viktor Blanke, who manages to seduce not one but three generations of mothers and daughters. Natalja, we discover, cannot be held in one place. Rather than giving in to the tragedy that befalls her, she wills herself to become someone else, reinventing her family''s narrative one irresistible tale at a time.Tantalizing and full of wit, this remarkable, shape-shifting novel is available in English for the first time.Translated from Danish by Denise Newman>

Product details

• Authors: Inger Christensen, Christensen Inger
• Assisted by: Newman Denise (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 04.12.2025
• EAN: 9780241790465
• ISBN: 978-0-241-79046-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 180 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin International Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Denmark, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, FICTION / World Literature / Denmark, Novella (Short Novel), Classic fiction: general and literary