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Online Nordic Book Club: Childhood

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Category: Education
Start date: 16 Mar 2021 06:00 PM
End date: 16 Mar 2021 07:00 PM
Country: New York, USA
Organizer: Scandinavia House
Name: info@amscan.org
Email: press@amscan.org
Phone: 212-779-3587
Homepage: www.scandinaviahouse.org/events/childhood-book-club/

Discuss the book Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen, which was recently re-released in translation by Tiina Nunnally as part of the The Copenhagen Trilogy. The trilogy was the subject of a recent panel discussion with Michael Favala Goldman, Morten Høi Jensen, Rachel Kushner, and Ben Lerner, available to stream below.

Tove knows she is a misfit whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For “long, mysterious words begin to crawl across” her soul, and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within her—and that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behind.

Childhood, the first volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship, told with lyricism and vivid intensity.