BLESSINGS
Book ID/图书代码： 11701218C00025
English Summary/英文概要： Caroline Albertine Minor’s Velsignelser/Blessings is about the most difficult of existential situations, in which the grief and desperation upon the loss of another person threaten to overwhelm and wipe out everything. But it is also about the miraculous moments when light can
be seen at the end of the tunnel, moments that come
when somebody, often a random person, holds out
their hand and shows us the way out of the darkness.
In the course of these seven short stories, we meet
people left powerless after an unbearable loss – a
loving young mother who loses her husband to a brain injury, a mother whose daughter commits suicide, and a daughter ignored by her dying father. These are all situations of extremely complex feelings that we don’t usually have words for, just as we are rarely able to describe the blessed but often unremarkable moments when another person, say a priest or neighbour in the
case of these short stories, brings those struck by crisis or torment back to life. Minor’s consistent, precise, and gripping portrayals are masterful at giving words to these morasses of emoThe way the seven stories are interspersed in arabesque
form resemble neither classical stories of formation
and creation, nor the systematically structured novels
of postmodernism, rather they resemble life itself,
whereby each story pulsates with a life of its own,
but is also linked to the lives of the other stories.
The reason Velsignelser forms a whole isn’t just that
a number of the same people crop up in a number
of stories but also that all the texts exhibit the same conspicuous ability to depict mental conditions with their wealth of nuances in a style both clinically clear and marvellously suggestive.tion.
With it’s elegant, passionate, and unusually beautiful prose. Velsignelser has the potential to be one of the foremost works of Danish short prose in recent decades.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2018年瑞典佩尔•奥洛夫•恩奎斯特文学奖得主
2017年丹麦迈克尔•斯特伦诗奖得主
2017年丹麦文学作家奖得主
2017年丹麦国家艺术基金会奖
Caroline Albertine Minor的这部《祝福》是关于人们在面对最为困难的生存情况下，我们无法面对失去另一个人悲痛和绝望，仿佛世界一时间被颠覆。但这也是就在隧道尽头，你也奇迹般地看见一丝光，就是在人生失意的的转角处他们会向你伸出手，指引我们走出低谷。
这是一篇优雅、热情、。文辞优美的散文。‘Velsignelser’有可能成为近几十年来丹麦短篇散文最重要的作品之一。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Caroline Albertine Minor, 生于1988年，毕业于哥本哈根著名的作家学校，著有两部作品。最近发表的短篇小说集《Blessings》,获得了很多丹麦文学奖项，并获得蒙大拿州文学奖项，丹麦Weekendavisen文学奖，政治文学奖和北欧理事会2018年文学奖提名。Caroline Albertine Minor, born 1988, graduated from
the prestigious Authors School in Copenhagen and
is the author of two novels. Her most recent novel,
Blessings, received the Michael Strunge Prize 2017,
the Danish Literature Writer’s Prize and the State Art Foundation Prize. Blessings has also been nominated for Montanas Literature Prize, Weekendavisen Literature Prize, Political Literature Prize and the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2018.
Format:HARDCOVER
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