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Eleven-year-old Larus finds orphaned girl Tinka and brings her back to the farm where she begins her journey to find a family who accepts her as she is.

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Eleven-year-old Larus finds orphaned girl Tinka and brings her back to the farm where she begins her journey to find a family who accepts her as she is.

Whether it's a butterfly "kicking off its cocoon, " larks singing "across flat farm country, " a dawn that "kneels in the grass / quenching its thirst / in the damp footprints of night, " or the poet's own "urge to be a squirrel, " the poems in Cecil Bødker's Inheritance are grounded in the physical world and transformed by her alert and always surprising imagination. Michael Goldman's faithful translations bring us nearly four decades of this...

Cecil Bødker paints a brilliant portrait of Malvina's journey from abused and speechless child-woman, nurtured by the love and care of inhabitants of The Water Farm, to the lion-hearted champion of other abused and speechless girls and women. And the rigid village power structure within which the abuse is systemic, mirrors uncannily our own contemporary political, social system. These stories of a woman who learns to stand and demand her own a...

Whether it's a butterfly "kicking off its cocoon, " larks singing "across flat farm country, " a dawn that "kneels in the grass / quenching its thirst / in the damp footprints of night, " or the poet's own "urge to be a squirrel, " the poems in Cecil Bødker's Inheritance are grounded in the physical world and transformed by her alert and always surprising imagination. Michael Goldman's faithful translations bring us nearly four decades of this...

Cecil Bødker paints a brilliant portrait of Malvina's journey from abused and speechless child-woman, nurtured by the love and care of inhabitants of The Water Farm, to the lion-hearted champion of other abused and speechless girls and women. And the rigid village power structure within which the abuse is systemic, mirrors uncannily our own contemporary political, social system. These stories of a woman who learns to stand and demand her own a...

A small group of social outcasts form a reluctant community on an abandoned farm in rural Denmark in the 1800s. Betrayal, flight and redemption, framed by relationships stretched across social standing, age and gender, The Water Farm brings their world to life. Cecil Bødker is one of Denmark's literary masters. The Water Farm is mesmerizing and tender. A deceptively simple story, with characters both real and extraordinary. It's surprising how...

A small group of social outcasts form a reluctant community on an abandoned farm in rural Denmark in the 1800s. Betrayal, flight and redemption, framed by relationships stretched across social standing, age and gender, The Water Farm brings their world to life. Cecil Bødker is one of Denmark's literary masters. The Water Farm is mesmerizing and tender. A deceptively simple story, with characters both real and extraordinary. It's surprising how...

Cecil Bodker's characters are raw and sensitive, unpredictable and universal. The young boy, Tacit, untangles secrets in mythic stories of family, love and sacrifice. Each character has refused to leave me.Jacqueline Sheehan, New York Times bestselling author of The Center of the WorldOnce-in-a-lifetime storytelling with the power of Faulkner. These characters live and breathe in Michael Goldman's expert translation. Cecil Bodker's prose rings...

Der dänische Kinderbuchklassiker von 1967 Mit neuer Ausstattung in der beliebten >FISCHER Klassik-Reihe< Silas ist ein Draufgänger und ziemlich mutig. Wäre er das nicht, würde er dem skrupellosen Zirkusdirekter Philipp immer noch als Zielscheibe beim Messerwerfen dienen. Weil es aber überall besser ist als in einem armseligen Wanderzirkus, haut Silas kurzerhand ab. Wie er eine waghalsige Wette gewinnt und einem Pferdehändler sein bestes Pfe...

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