Of Darkness

By Josefine KlougartTranslated from the Danish by Martin Aitken Nominated for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award Klougart mixes prose, lyric essay, drama, poetry, and images to meditate on death and loss through breathtaking, moving, apocalyptic writing. Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Paperback: 9781941920503eBook: 9781941920510 Description Nominated for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award "Klougart has an unusual ability to create phrases, images and a language that you long to stay in and remember forever." —Dagens Nyheter "One can speak of unbearable beauty, but one can also speak of a linguistic beauty that makes it possible to bear the unbearable." —Politiken In this genre-bending apocalyptic novel Josefine Klougart fuses myriad literary styles to breathtaking effect in poetic meditations on life and death interspersed with haunting imagery. Her experimental novel asks readers to reconsider death, asserting sorrow and loss as beautiful and necessary aspects