These masterful essays give a strong, personal, and moving portrait of a landscape and of a mind-about loneliness, memory and belonging, in wind and waves, time, place. The light flowing through Nors' writing is breathtaking, it is hypnotic, consoling. -- Gunnhild Øyehaug, author of Present Tense Machine on A LINE IN THE WORLD

A stunning portrayal of the connection between landscape, human beings, and memory on the Danish west coast... [Dorthe Nors's] rhythm, her stillness, her humility, her ability to finish calm sentences as if they were a song... This is a masterpiece. - Dagbladet Information

Dorthe Nors's writing is both poetic and harsh, laconic and ironic, and with an impressionable clarity that yet always seems to be keeping secrets, hidden between sentences and words. Her prose makes its way into the landscape and the soul, which opens up and receives - Kristeligt Dagblad

This is a strong work of art that works on several levels. A book that pierces its way into something quintessentially Danish and Jutlandish, without ever appearing provincial, while at all times maintaining its grand outlook... It is a book you know that you will return to once you put it down - Pov International

Dorthe Nors is an author unlike anyone else - Femina

It is hard to imagine a Danish writer who could have portrayed the region in a more fascinating way. The method is poetic and candid... Nors points out that it is women's turn to put the landscape into words - Gyldendal (Norway)

These are texts that are so well-written and complete... Both the long history, and [Nors'] own personal story are gathered in points on the map - Morgenbladet (Norway)

** - PRAISE FOR DORTHE NORS'S FICTION - **

It's a joy to be in the hands of a writer as funny and playful with form as Dorthe Nors is, a writer who trusts her readers to be adults, to figure it out, to make the connections themselves -- Lauren Groff - New York Review of Books

Nors's writing creeps up on you and then overwhelms you with its emotional power. She is a master -- Chris Kraus

Dorthe Nors is fantastic! -- Junot Díaz

Reading Nors's work, one is reminded of the thrills and dangers of living -- Yiyun Li

Nors's reinvention of experimental fiction is marvellous - Guardian

Nors writes important modern women's fiction . . . she gives back agency and centrality to older women - Financial Times

An unflinching eye makes the new queen of Danish literature stand out - Big Issue

Dorthe Nors is a writer of moments-quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation, at times dyspeptic, but never unsympathetic - Paris Review

A stunningly original new voice from Denmark... Dorthe Nors has the fabulous talent (...) of restraint... A major new voice in European literature - Booktrust

Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international publications including the Boston Review, Harper's and the New Yorker. Nors's works include Wild Swims, Karate Chop, Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, and Mirror, Shoulder, Signal - shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize - which are all published by Pushkin Press. Born in rural Jutland, she lives on the North Sea coast in Denmark.

Caroline Waightis an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, Norwegian and German. She lives and works in London.