{"product_id":"when-death-takes-something-from-you-give-it-back-by-naja-marie-aidt-9781787475380","title":"When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.’\u003c\/b\u003e Max Porter, author of \u003ci\u003eGrief Is the Thing with Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLanny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘There is no one quite like Naja Marie Aidt’\u003c\/b\u003e Valeria Luiselli\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Devastating, angry, challenging, fragmented and filled with the beautiful hope that the love we have for people continues into the world even after they're gone.’\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eCulturefly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Fragmented, poetic, informative and truthful, Aidt faces the greatest loss we can ever know with all the force of great elegy writers like Anne Carson and Denise Riley. Essential.’\u003c\/b\u003e Polly Clark, author of \u003ci\u003eLarchfield\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTiger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I raise my glass to my eldest son. His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping above us. Outside, the March evening is cold and clear. 'To life!' I say as the glasses clink with a delicate and pleasing sound. My mother says something to the dog. Then the phone rings. We don't answer it. Who could be calling so late on a Saturday evening?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's 25-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Death Takes Something From You Give It Back\u003c\/i\u003e is about losing a child. It is about formulating a vocabulary to express the deepest kind of pain. And it's about finding a way to write about a reality invaded by grief, lessened by loss.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFaced with the sudden emptiness of language, Naja finds solace in the anguish of Joan Didion, Nick Cave, C.S. Lewis, Mallarme, Plato and other writers who have suffered the deadening impact of loss. Their torment suffuses with her own as Naja wrestles with words and contests their capacity to speak for the depths of her sorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis palimpsest of mourning enables Naja to turn over the pathetic, precious transience of existence and articulates her greatest fear: to forget. The insistent compulsion to reconstruct the harrowing aftermath of Carl's death keeps him painfully present, while fragmented memories, journal entries and poetry inch her closer to piecing Carl's life together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntensely moving and quietly devastating, this is what it is to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death's indomitable resolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471937880300,"sku":"9781787475380","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781787475380-when-death-takes-something-from-you-give-it-back.jpg?v=1775263219","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/when-death-takes-something-from-you-give-it-back-by-naja-marie-aidt-9781787475380","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}