What Kingdom | Nordic Book Club

Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! On October 15 we인터넷바카라™ll be discussing Danish author Fine GrÃ¥bøl인터넷바카라™s What Kingdom, out now in translation by Martin Aitken from Archipelago.

Fine GrÃ¥bøl인터넷바카라™s narrator dreams of furniture flickering to life; a chair that greets you; shiny tiles that follow a peculiar grammar; or a bookshelf that can be thrown on like an apron. Living in a temporary psychiatric care unit for young people in Copenhagen, she practices daily routines that take on the urgency of survival (peeling a carrot, drinking prune juice, listening through thin walls), and is obsessed with the way items rise up out of their thingness, assuming personalities and private motives. A thoughtful critique on governmental treatment of the mentally ill, What Kingdom parses the culpability of psychiatric institutions, and poignantly explores the smallest meeting points between people 인터넷바카라” whether a pair of hands dyeing another인터넷바카라™s hair, or removing the acupuncture needles.