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Nothing but Fear
Den som blinker er bange for døden
Knud Romer (born 1960)
Translated by John Mason
English editions
In EnglishNothing but Fear
Serpent's Tail · United Kingdom · 2012 · 184 pages
Knud grows up on the Danish island of Falster in the 1960s, the son of a Danish father and a German mother. Long after the war the town still hates the Germans, and he is bullied and shut out at school. He takes refuge in the eccentric history of his family, told as a patchwork of memories that reaches back to his grandparents' time and through the war years, with his mother Hildegard at its centre. Inside the family's walls, the war has never really ended.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 176 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Denmark, 1960s
- First published
- 2006 by Athene
- Author's age
- 46 when first published
- ISBN
9788711171066 (original)
9781846687143 (Serpent's Tail, United Kingdom)
- More
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