Nordkraft

Three linked parts follow young people on Aalborg's drug scene during the early 1990s. In the first, Maria, 21, makes regular runs to Christiania in Copenhagen to buy hash for her boyfriend Asger, owner of two rottweilers, and is drawn to Hossein, a deserter from the Iranian army. In the second, Allan returns from years at sea with a scar from a shipboard fire and one aim: to stay clear of the life he once quit, though his past is closing in and Maja, the woman he loves, doubts him. In the third, the friends gather after Steso's fatal overdose, and the day of the wake reopens old wounds.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

421 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark, early 1990s

First published

2002 by Gyldendal

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9788702012118 (original)

9781552784617 (McArthur & Company, Canada)

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