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Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Longlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Award An unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother's grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language. In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicle...

In March 2015, Aidt's 25-year-old son died in a tragic accident. Chronicling the few first years after that devastating phone call, this work is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love.

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'Fragmented, poetic, informative and...

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 Someth...

Danish poet and author Naja Marie Aidt struggled to find the language to express herself after her son's passing, but found solace in Joan Didion, Nick Cave, Mallarme and the work of many others on the subject of loss. A powerful examination of grieving and poetry.

Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt's stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes of sex, love, desire, and gender, Aidt pushes them into her own desperate, frantic realm. In one, a whore shows up unannounced at a man's apartment, roosts in his living room, and then violently threatens him when he tries to make her leave. In ano...