Man skulle nok have været der

Tue, seventeen, carries everything he owns down to the bulky-waste bins after his landlord in Frederiksberg throws him out. Going back to Skive and his violent father is unthinkable, so he keeps a sports bag, a computer and a small palm, sells newspaper subscriptions on the street and sneaks into the paper's back rooms to sleep. There he meets Victoria, who lets him stay on the sofa at the grand flat she shares with her mother, a successful architect, and Tue settles into a kind of home he has never known. Seen through his eyes, privileged Copenhagen looks hollow, but he is no innocent either: he lies, cadges and steals to get by. Before long he is drifting again, sheltering wherever he can, always afraid of being found out.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

272 pages in the original

Genres

Coming of age, Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Denmark

Series

Tue, book 3

First published

2021 by Lindhardt og Ringhof

Author's age

26 when first published

ISBN

9788711900338 (original)