A01=Mads Nygaard
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child narrator
coming of age
contemporary fiction
COP=United States
danish author
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denmark
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grief
hirtshals
karl gustav
Language_English
loss of a sibling
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Product details
- ISBN 9781950539383
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Dzanc Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Seven-year-old Karl Gustav is sent away to live with his grandma following the death of his big brother, Alexander. No one understands how Alexander, an excellent swimmer, washed up on a North Sea beach near the harbor of Hirtshals in Denmark.
Karl Gustav is left bewildered and at a loss. While everyone around him shies away from talking about the tragedy, he becomes increasingly concerned about death—not just of his big brother, but death in general. Like Chinese boxes opening one into another, Karl Gustav reveals all he knows about the tragedy and all he wishes he did not know, how his grandmother’s God fits into it—and how he does. But will he ever open his mouth and speak up?
Mads Nygaard is a Danish author from Hirtshals, Denmark. The author of five novels and five children’s books, he has received the Benny Andersen Award 2020 for the book The Unaccompanied Minors, and has also been the recipient of the Three-Year Grant from the Danish Arts Council. He is cofounder of the movement Venligboerne (the friendly neighbors), a network giving refugees a fast track into their new local environment. When Me and God Were Little, translated by Steve Schein, is his first American release.
