"Ditlevsen can conjure an entire world in just a few words."
–Tabish Khair, The Times Literary Supplement
"[Ditlevsen's] legacy endures with this collection of short stories . . . Beautifully crafted."
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Angela Haupt, TIME "Quiet and devastating . . . The stories are simple; the characters ordinary and immensely human. Their motivations are mysterious and subtle, and Ditlevsen is acutely sensitive to the way normal life can wear at their hearts . . . Already renowned for her memoirs, Ditlevsen is now poised to win acclaim as a master of short fiction."
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Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A central work of modern Danish literature."
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Kirkus Reviews "[A] literary titan . . . [Ditlevsen's] terse, unnerving stories peer into the fragility of relationships and the casual epiphanies that gut her characters."
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Oprah Daily (Most Anticipated Books of 2022) "These spare and sparkling stories summon deep wells of emotion without the slightest trace of sentimentality."
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Chloe Schama, VOGUE "These collected short stories show off [Ditlevsen's] astonishingly precise prose."
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Ellen Peirson-Hagger, The New Statesman