Baboon

Naja Marie Aidt · 2006 CE · Short Story · Nordic · Contemporary

A Danish collection in which ordinary households, parents and children, couples at home, pass without warning into violence or breakdown. The prose stays flat and exact while the situations tip over. It brought Aidt wide attention in the Nordic countries and later in English.

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