A Change Of Time

Author:   Ida Jessen ,  Martin Aitken
Publisher:   Archipelago Books
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9781939810175


Pages:   250
Publication Date:   16 April 2019
Format:   Paperback
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A penetrating study of a woman who, in the wake of her domineering husband's death, must embrace her newfound freedom and redefine herself. Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence.

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Author:   Ida Jessen ,  Martin Aitken
Publisher:   Archipelago Books
Imprint:   Archipelago Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781939810175


ISBN 10:   1939810175
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   16 April 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Jessen is a talented and empathetic writer (and kudos must be given to translator Aitken, whose translation is supple and luminous), and has imbued a quiet story about a woman finding herself after her husband's death with poignancy and stunning humanity. - Publishers Weekly (starred review) An engaging, honest, and beautifully written look at love, loss, and self-realization. -- Kirkus Reviews A Change of Time is a book of masterful restraint, and this restraint is a kind of tenderness. It is a book that understands that desire permeates everything - nothing human can be be cleansed of it; and that sometimes love clings most inextricably to the smallest places - misjudgment, invisibility, loneliness. It is a book that deepens and dignifies both our innocence and our fallibility. -- Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces A masterful psychological portrait of an individual, who is set free into a new era, after many years of great loneliness. -- Jury of the Danish Writers Association's Blixen Award for A Change of Time A successful portrait of a widow and her coming freedom. Ida Jessen is sensible and solid in her historical novel A Change in Time. -- Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Politiken One rejoices at how clearly and precisely the book is written. -- Dagbladet Information Once again, Ida Jessen has succeeded in creating a small masterpiece. -- Weekendavisen


A masterful psychological portrait of an individual, who is set free into a new era, after many years of great loneliness. --Jury of the Danish Writers Association's Blixen Award for A Change of Time A successful portrait of a widow and her coming freedom. Ida Jessen is sensible and solid in her historical novel A Change in Time. --Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Politiken One rejoices at how clearly and precisely the book is written. --Dagbladet Information Once again, Ida Jessen has succeeded in creating a small masterpiece. --Weekendavisen


Jessen is a talented and empathetic writer (and kudos must be given to translator Aitken, whose translation is supple and luminous), and has imbued a quiet story about a woman finding herself after her husband's death with poignancy and stunning humanity. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) An engaging, honest, and beautifully written look at love, loss, and self-realization. -Kirkus Reviews In A Change of Time, Ida Jessen has crafted a masterpiece of the epistolary novel told in diary entries. Each log is rich with detail ... Here, one-liners-beautifully translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken-are deeply felt. -Bookforum The text shines as an honest reckoning with the death of a spouse-but one in a deeply companionless marriage-and the life of two people who shared little but space ... Jessen, the Danish translator of Marilynne Robinson, among others, proves to have a keen Robinsonian streak of her own. She writes with the same narrative generosity, the same belief in the dignity and voice of characters that might usually be dismissed. -The Millions A Change of Time is a book of masterful restraint, and this restraint is a kind of tenderness. It is a book that understands that desire permeates everything - nothing human can be be cleansed of it; and that sometimes love clings most inextricably to the smallest places - misjudgment, invisibility, loneliness. It is a book that deepens and dignifies both our innocence and our fallibility. -Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces A masterful psychological portrait of an individual, who is set free into a new era, after many years of great loneliness. -Jury of the Danish Writers Association's Blixen Award for A Change of Time A successful portrait of a widow and her coming freedom. Ida Jessen is sensible and solid in her historical novel A Change in Time. -Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Politiken One rejoices at how clearly and precisely the book is written. -Dagbladet Information Once again, Ida Jessen has succeeded in creating a small masterpiece. -Weekendavisen Set in a rural Danish village in the early 20th century, A Change of Time is a beautiful, quiet and reflective novel told through the diary entries of a schoolteacher called Frau Bagge . . . The novel charts her response to [her husband's] death and her attempts to build herself a new life, find herself a new place and identity and discover meaning in life again. An exquisitely written novel. -Radz Pandit, Rhadika's Reading Retreat


Jessen is a talented and empathetic writer (and kudos must be given to translator Aitken, whose translation is supple and luminous), and has imbued a quiet story about a woman finding herself after her husband's death with poignancy and stunning humanity. - Publishers Weekly (starred review) An engaging, honest, and beautifully written look at love, loss, and self-realization. -- Kirkus Reviews In A Change of Time, Ida Jessen has crafted a masterpiece of the epistolary novel told in diary entries. Each log is rich with detail ... Here, one-liners--beautifully translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken--are deeply felt. -- Bookforum The text shines as an honest reckoning with the death of a spouse--but one in a deeply companionless marriage--and the life of two people who shared little but space ... Jessen, the Danish translator of Marilynne Robinson, among others, proves to have a keen Robinsonian streak of her own. She writes with the same narrative generosity, the same belief in the dignity and voice of characters that might usually be dismissed. -- The Millions A Change of Time is a book of masterful restraint, and this restraint is a kind of tenderness. It is a book that understands that desire permeates everything - nothing human can be be cleansed of it; and that sometimes love clings most inextricably to the smallest places - misjudgment, invisibility, loneliness. It is a book that deepens and dignifies both our innocence and our fallibility. -- Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces A masterful psychological portrait of an individual, who is set free into a new era, after many years of great loneliness. -- Jury of the Danish Writers Association's Blixen Award for A Change of Time A successful portrait of a widow and her coming freedom. Ida Jessen is sensible and solid in her historical novel A Change in Time. -- Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Politiken One rejoices at how clearly and precisely the book is written. -- Dagbladet Information Once again, Ida Jessen has succeeded in creating a small masterpiece. -- Weekendavisen


A Change of Time is a book of masterful restraint, and this restraint is a kind of tenderness. It is a book that understands that desire permeates everything - nothing human can be be cleansed of it; and that sometimes love clings most inextricably to the smallest places - misjudgment, invisibility, loneliness. It is a book that deepens and dignifies both our innocence and our fallibility. -- Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces A masterful psychological portrait of an individual, who is set free into a new era, after many years of great loneliness. -- Jury of the Danish Writers Association's Blixen Award for A Change of Time A successful portrait of a widow and her coming freedom. Ida Jessen is sensible and solid in her historical novel A Change in Time. -- Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Politiken One rejoices at how clearly and precisely the book is written. -- Dagbladet Information Once again, Ida Jessen has succeeded in creating a small masterpiece. -- Weekendavisen


Author Information

Ida Jessen is the author of A Change of Time (En Ny Tid), which received the Blixen Prize and Danish Radio's Best Novel Prize, as well as several bestselling and award-winning novels. A member of the Danish Academy, she is known as a master of psychological realism. She has also translated the work of Marilynne Robinson and Alice Munro into Danish. About the translator- Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hanne rstavik, Peter H eg, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Pia Juul, and his translations of short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary journals and magazines. In 2012 he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Translation Prize.

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