The Inscrutable Landscape of ‘A Line in the World’
In her essay collection A Line in the World, Danish writer Dorthe Nors maps the personal, social, and geographical landscapes of Denmark’s western coast and takes the reader to the unforgiving landscape of Denmark’s western coast. Hers is an intimate yet stark portrait of a space at once ancient and modern, where the past is never truly in the past: tides disinter the dead from their graves, medieval frescoes endure on church walls, mines from World War II remain armed. Far more than a picaresque travel narrative, the book’s 14 essays, elegantly translated into colloquial British English by , reflect on inheritance, beauty, and how we understand our place in the world.
