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  • The Wax Child

    by Olga Ravn ...
    Translated by Martin Aitken ...
    An astounding, haunting tale of accused witches—a book of sorcery itself—from the celebrated author of The Employees and My WorkLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZEIn seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed ... Read more

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  • The Employees

    A workplace novel of the 22nd century

    by Olga Ravn ...
    Translated by Martin Aitken ...
    Shortlisted for the International Booker prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmareLonglisted for the 2022 National Book AwardFunny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • My Work

    by Olga Ravn ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Employees, a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood.After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can’t afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die

    Selected Poems

    by Tove Ditlevsen ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    Series series FSG Poetry
    By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English.*It was a meaningless daylike what you callloveIt was a ThursdayIn parentheses. The brackets around itHave already fadedLife tastes of ashAnd is bearable.*From one of Denmark’s most celebrated twentieth-century writers, the author of the acclaimed Cop.. ... Read more

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