Pia Tafdrup Libri

In 1999, Queen's Gate, Pia Tafdrup's ninth book, won Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award, the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Now available in English in a lovely rendition by David McDuff, English language readers can experience this outstanding poet's celebrated collection. "From water you have come," writes Tafdrup, creating her own myth through a sequence of highly sensual poems centered on water in all its forms. This is a composite picture of the basic elements of the life-cycle of nature and man, mirrored through a conceptual world that takes the body as its axis, in poetic language of great visual and emotional power. The poems are written from a female point of view, and reflect the whole story of human life and suffering.

Pia Tafdrups første roman er en intens skildring af en kvindes hengivelse til kærligheden til en mand, som viser sig at være langt mindre engageret i hende end hun i ham. Bogen begynder med en scene, som man først tror er en allegori: En kvinde klatrer over muren ind til naboen, går ind og indtager huset, som var det hendes eget. Kun langsomt går det op for læseren, at kvindens forehavende skal tages for pålydende, og at Pascha er brudt ind til naboen - en mand hun aldrig før har set.