og en utopistisk undersøgelse af egenarten af kvinneskeligt og kosmisk omsorgsarbejde

Tove Ditlevsen’s final novel – published a year before her suicide in 1976 – is a masterful conclusion to a great work of writing: a blackly funny and devastating tour-de-force that pulses with life even as it journeys towards death

Kommer Katten

Hun besad en enorm livskraft

Og at vi alle skal blive bedre til at yde omsorg for hinanden gennem nærende mad

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous og en utopistisk undersøgelse afThis is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born. It tells of Vietnam, of the lasting impact of war, and of his family's struggle to forge a new future. And it serves as a doorway into parts of Little Dog's life his mother has never known episodes of bewilderment, fear and passion all the while moving closer to an