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    One of Us Is Sleeping
    One of Us Is Sleeping
    One of Us Is Sleeping
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    One of Us Is Sleeping

    By Josefine Klougart

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  • The second of Klougart's novels to be shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, One of Us Is Sleeping was also shortlisted for the Readers' Award and was a best-seller in Denmark.

  • Deep Vellum will be bringing out another of Klougart's novels in 2017.

  • This is the second title to be released in Open Letter's "Danish Women Writers Series" (Rock, Paper, Scissors by Naja Marie Aidt was the first), which is funded by the Danish Arts Council and includes additional marketing money to promote these titles.

  • Klougart will be touring the U.S. in support of this novel, and already has started builing a fanbase, thanks to excerpts of her work that have appeared in Asymptote, World Literature Today, and elsewhere.

  • A mix of poetry, fiction, and essay, her writing has been compared to that of Joan Didion, Anne Carson, and Virginia Woolf.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Letter
    Release dateJun 20, 2016
    ISBN9781940953410
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      One of Us Is Sleeping by Josefine Klougart is both wonderfully simple and heart-achingly complex. The prose, beautiful and poetic, demands a closer reading than most novels. Reading between the lines and interpreting the emotions for yourself is sometimes a struggle but one which is rewarded many times over.These are reflections for the most part and so present a nonlinear narrative if one is looking for a novel that travels from one place to another. Perhaps a better approach is to avoid the traveling concept of plot and accept this as something we all do on occasion, which is spend time reflecting back and forth through time but from a stationary point in time.This will not appeal to everyone (of course, this can be said for every book), especially those who want a plot that whisks along at a breakneck pace or explain a character's thoughts in simple non-poetic form. For those who enjoy pondering life's many twists and turns along with the protagonist, this will be a wonderful experience. Some of the passages shed new light on some of my own conflicts in life, and that is an uncommon occurrence in many novels.Reviewed from a copy made available through Goodreads First Reads.
    • 5/5
      I believe that this young author from Denmark can be compared to Salman Rushdie & Marcel Proust. A new literary shining star! The plotlines of her novel include a young woman coping with the end of a love relationship at the same time as her mother is dying of cancer. She uses lush images from nature. My favorite recurrent image revolves around the apple tree in the yard of her childhood home. The structure is stream-of-consciousness like Rushdie, yet her prose is exquisitely lyrical and her imagery is excruciatingly melancholy with a river of life's truths running right through its center. Perhaps the finest prose since Proust!

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