Ude for uden

Too young to have fought in the resistance, Erik and his generation of farmers are meant to save Denmark in the modern age after the Second World War. He marries Lisbet and buys a small farm with good soil, and through drought, tragedy, good years and bad they watch the only way of life they know disappear: the farmers go from heroes to villains. For half a century Erik confides in three friends he met at nineteen at Rødding folk high school, in a notebook they pass between them. Years after his death his son Svend finds it. Divorced, living in Copenhagen, a member of parliament hounded by a tabloid that has a story which could end his career, Svend makes a painful journey back to the countryside he turned his back on, and the notebook holds secrets that come to matter to him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

286 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark, 1950s to today

First published

2025 by Lindhardt og Ringhof

Author's age

62 when first published

ISBN

9788727186139 (original)