Natalja's Stories

A brilliant, elegant, and playful novella newly in English by “one of Denmark’s most honored poets” (Publishers Weekly)

Known primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark’s most distinguished and original authors. Natalja’s Stories, modeled after Boccaccio’s Decameron, takes an usual approach to the theme of migration by focusing on the shifting ground of meaning itself. It is a tale told to the narrator by her grandmother—about her mother, "abducted" by a R...