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When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back (Hardcover)
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When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back (Hardcover)
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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE KIRKUS REVIEW AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION &
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE*
'Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books
which have such life. It shows us what love is' Max Porter, author
of Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Lanny 'There is no one
quite like Naja Marie Aidt' Valeria Luiselli 'Devastating, angry,
challenging, fragmented and filled with the beautiful hope that the
love we have for people continues into the world even after they're
gone' CultureFly 'A book about death that pulses with life' The
Lady 'Fragmented, poetic, informative and truthful, Aidt faces the
greatest loss we can ever know with all the force of great elegy
writers like Anne Carson and Denise Riley. Essential' Polly Clark,
author of Larchfield and Tiger _______ "I raise my glass to my
eldest son. His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping above us.
Outside, the March evening is cold and clear. 'To life!' I say as
the glasses clink with a delicate and pleasing sound. My mother
says something to the dog. Then the phone rings. We don't answer
it. Who could be calling so late on a Saturday evening?" In March
2015, Naja Marie Aidt's 25-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic
accident. When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back is about
losing a child. It is about formulating a vocabulary to express the
deepest kind of pain. And it's about finding a way to write about a
reality invaded by grief, lessened by loss. Faced with the sudden
emptiness of language, Naja finds solace in the anguish of Joan
Didion, Nick Cave, C.S. Lewis, Mallarme, Plato and other writers
who have suffered the deadening impact of loss. Their torment
suffuses with her own as Naja wrestles with words and contests
their capacity to speak for the depths of her sorrow. This
palimpsest of mourning enables Naja to turn over the pathetic,
precious transience of existence and articulates her greatest fear:
to forget. The insistent compulsion to reconstruct the harrowing
aftermath of Carl's death keeps him painfully present, while
fragmented memories, journal entries and poetry inch her closer to
piecing Carl's life together. Intensely moving and quietly
devastating, this is what is it to be a family, what it is to love
and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death's
indomitable resolve.
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