The Star
The Star is a novel about a father who was a seaman, a mother who was
raised in a children’s home, and how they meet at an outdoors dance
event in the middle of Copenhagen and have a child.
It’s about the family’s life in a ground-floor flat on Nansen Street. It
also concerns the entire peculiar menagerie living on that street, about
which one can say: Here everything’s possible.
It’s about being one missionizing sperm cell among billions, a
manipulative fetus and a child with its eyes wide open.
It’s an account of what’s to be found at the bottom of a swinging beer
mug, at the bottom of the sea under the father’s ship, and in the most
remote recess of the universe.
The Star is a novel that deals with life’s most commonplace aspects as
well as its most miraculous. It’s about life and death … and everything
in between: that which keeps us going, that which we love, the essence
itself - that pulsating life.
The Star
Novel 2004
Lindhardt og Ringhof
● Press