num_pages: 378
description: Camilla Charles Alma Edward Alwilda and Kristian are a circle of friends hurtling through mid-life. Structured as a series of monologues jumping from one friend to the next Companions follows their loves ambitions pains and anxieties as they age fall sick have affairs grieve host dinner parties and move between the Lake District Berlin Lisbon Belgrade Mozambique New York and of course Denmark. In her first book to be translated into English Christina Hesselholdt explores everyday life the weight of the past and the difficulty of intimacy in a uniquely playful and experimental style. At once deeply comic and remarkably insightful Companions is an exhilarating portrait of life in the twenty-first century.
language: English
title: Companions
publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions