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Adorable is a haunting, transmundane portrait of a young family told in four parts, in Copenhagen and London. The love between B and Q is tender but worn. When their daughter AE is born, the everyday lights up in a new way. In its second part, the dead are animated in B's brain. When B's father dies, the news is delivered to her by phone and an essayistic, collagist meditation on death and transmission ensues. And then, it's finally Friday. B and Q descend below the living room floor and wander through a cracked and skittish underworld.
In Ida Marie Hede's porous world, which is our world too, grime, bacteria, and even death are intimately bound up with health and renewal. Fusing the commonplace and the profound, the material and the spiritual, the elegiac and the conceptual, Adorable powerfully insists that it is impossible to tell where death and life begin or end.
About the Author
IDA MARIE HEDE (b. 1980) is the author of seven books and numerous plays. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and Goldsmiths College and graduated from the School of Creative Writing in Copenhagen in 2008. Hede has taught at Gladiatorskolen, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and is currently a creative writing lecturer at Johan Borup's Hojskole as well as an art critic for Dagbladet Information. She has received the Danish Art Council's prestigious three-year working grant, and in 2018 Bedarende was nominated for the Danish Critics' Prize for Literature.SHERILYN NICOLETTE HELLBERG has published translations of Jonas Eika, Johanne Bille, Tove Ditlevsen, and Olga Ravn, and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018, she received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for her translation of Caspar Eric's Nike.
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- Contributor: Ida Marie Hede
- Imprint: Lolli Editions
- ISBN13: 9781999992897
- Number of Pages: 146
- Packaged Dimensions: 125x185x11mm
- Packaged Weight: 195
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Lolli Editions
- Release Date: 2021-05-20
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: IDA MARIE HEDE (b. 1980) is the author of seven books and numerous plays. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Copenhagen and Goldsmiths College and graduated from the School of Creative Writing in Copenhagen in 2008. Hede has taught at Gladiatorskolen, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and is currently a creative writing lecturer at Johan Borup's Hojskole as well as an art critic for Dagbladet Information. She has received the Danish Art Council's prestigious three-year working grant, and in 2018 Bedarende was nominated for the Danish Critics' Prize for Literature.SHERILYN NICOLETTE HELLBERG has published translations of Jonas Eika, Johanne Bille, Tove Ditlevsen, and Olga Ravn, and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018, she received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for her translation of Caspar Eric's Nike.
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