The Land of Short Sentences

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By Stine Pilgaard

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The Land of Short Sentences follows a young mother who relocates to a remote community in West Jutland, Denmark, accompanying her partner who teaches at the local adult education school. Isolated and navigating unfamiliar social customs, she seeks to find her place amid the peculiar conversational styles of the locals while balancing her roles as a new mother and an advice columnist.
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A young mother follows her partner to a rural community in West Jutland, Denmark, where he teaches at the local school for adult education. Isolated, she is forced to find her way in a bewildering community and in the inscrutable conversational forms of the local population.

A young woman relocates to an outlying community in West Jutland, Denmark, and is forced to find her way, not only in the bewildering environment of the residential Folk High School, where her partner has been hired to teach, but also in the inscrutable conversational forms of the local population. And on top of it all, there's the small matter of juggling her roles as mother to a newborn baby and advice columnist in the local newspaper.

In this understated and hilarious novel, Stine Pilgaard conjures a tale of venturing into new and uncharted land, of human relationships, dilemmas, and the ways and byways of social intercourse.

The Land of Short Sentences offers a captivating exploration of life and communication in a small Danish community, with an engaging blend of humour and insight.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781642861082

Publisher: World Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: World Editions

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Hunter Simpson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Stine Pilgaard is a graduate of the Danish Writers' Academy and the University of Copenhagen. Her first novel, Min mor siger ("My Mother Says"), was a critical and commercial success, earning a nomination for the prestigious Danish Broadcasting Corporation Literature Prize and securing its author the Bodil and Jrgen Munch-Christensen Award for a debut author. In 2016, Pilgaard received the Danish Libraries' Writers Award and was nominated for the Danish Readers' Book Award for Lejlighedssange ("Songs for Special Occasions"). The Land of Short Sentences was an instant bestseller in Denmark, where it was released to critical acclaim. Pilgaard hails from the city of Aarhus and lives in Velling, an outlying rural community close to Ringkbing in Jutland, Denmark.

Hunter Simpson is originally from North Carolina and lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Stine Pilgaard's The Land of Short Sentences (World Editions, 2022) was his first published literary translation and won Scandinavian American Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjberg Prize for 2021. My Mother Says will be his second published translation.

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