The endless summer
Subtitle: a requiem
By: Madame Nielsen ; translated from the Danish by Gaye Kynoch
Contributors: Kynoch, Gaye, translator
Edition: First edition.
Series: Danish women writers series; Danish women writers series
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781940953694
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Gender identity; Fiction
Work titles: Endløse Sommer
Description: "A passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist, The Endless Summer confronts ideas of time, sexuality, and tragedy in a style reminiscent of both Proust and Lars Von Trier. Emotional and visceral, the novel drifts through time and space, relating the lives, loves, and dissolutions of everyone who surrounds this unexpected couple, including the woman's former husband who holds the family at gunpoint, her daughter and her lovers, who include a boy who finds himself and his true sexual identity in America, and the young boy who "is perhaps a girl, but does not yet know it," who narrates it all. Propelled by a captivating story, the real charm of the novel resides in its impeccable style and atmosphere, which gathers a sense of longing, a slight nostalgia for times that ache with possibility, while knowing that even the endless summer doesn't last forever"--
Notes: Translation from the Danish of: Endløse Sommer.