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Iron Lung (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781916806047)
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xA poetic tale of two children separated by time and space, connected by their yearning for embodiment and belonging.
A girl is struck down by polio during the terrifying epidemic of the early 1950s. Paralysed and unable to breathe on her own, she is committed to hospital in Copenhagen and placed in an iron lung. Forty years earlier, near Budapest, a child grows up in an orphanage for boys. The child goes by the name of 'Boy' but is not like the others, as their body seems to transcend the categories of boy or girl. Between these two young people, there is a powerful, enigmatic bond that stretches across time and space.
Author: Kirstine Reffstrup
ISBN-10: 191680604X
ISBN-13: 9781916806047
Publisher: Peirene Press Ltd
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2027
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.70w x 1.30d
By Kirstine Reffstrup
xKirstine Reffstrup was born in Denmark and lives in Norway. Her first novel, I, Unica, was published to great acclaim in 2016 and was nominated for literary prizes in both Norway and Denmark. Her second novel, Iron Lung, was first published in 2023 and was nominated for the prestigious Politiken Literature Prize. The same year she was awarded the Stig Sæterbakken Memorial Prize. Hunter Simpson was born in North Carolina, USA, and lives in Copenhagen. He won the 2021 Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize for his translation of Stine Pilgaard's The Land of Short Sentences. He also translated Pilgaard's first novel, My Mother Says.
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