Tine Høeg
New Passengers (Nye rejsende)
DENMARK
BOOK
On her first day, a young teacher meets a man on her way to work. And it is on the train that she experiences a significant part of her passionate relationship with this charismatic family man. With her unique perspective, she takes us both into the world of high school students and into the depths of her own soul, where she is grappling with her new role in life.
Published by Fra, 2024
AUTHOR
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Danish author Tine Høeg (* 1985) has made a name for herself with a highly unconventional style. She arranges terse comments and thoughts, heavy with emotion and meaning, into short, almost poetic stanzas. She writes about utterly ordinary experiences without the ballast of verbal psychologizing or descriptions, yet her texts cut deep beneath the surface. Both her debut novel, New Passengers (2017), and her second novel, Tour de Chambre (2020), have been adapted into stage plays at the Danish National Theater. In 2022, her third novel, Sult (Hunger), was published – a story about the effects of infertility treatment on a person, an artist, and the body which has also been adapted into a film.
TRANSLATION
Markéta Kliková
