Geld in der Tasche

In the aftermath of a national disaster, a couple look back on their marriage and what it cost them in this groundbreaking novel about capitalism's effect on the human heart<BR><BR>*Guardian best translated fiction of 2025*<BR><BR>'Buzzes with electricity... intriguing, maddening, exciting. I'm in' Observer<BR><BR>'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' Guardian<BR><BR>Maggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together.<BR><BR>Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing 159 people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was revealed not to be an accident, but the result of an insurance scam gone wrong.<BR><BR>How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt? How does money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape?<BR><BR>'Taut and intelligent... a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society' Literary Review<BR><BR>'A comet in Scandinavian literature' OLGA RAVN<BR><BR>'Startling and irresistible' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT<BR><BR>'Unusual, fascinating, and complicated in the best way' CLAIRE FULLER<BR><BR>'Nordenhof's writing is electrifying' CHETNA MAROO

A classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstar'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' GUARDIAN'A comet in Scandinavian literature' OLGA RAVNA woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. Free in a new city, she reveals how she once sold herself to a man called T. Desperate for money, she accepted when T offered her lavish gifts and a suitcase full of cash in exchange for total control of her body. But at the last moment, she chose life and fled.In London, the woman watches the people around her, searching for clues on how to live in the face of betrayal and loss, and what freedom really looks like. Intimate, revelatory and ultimately revolutionary, this is a portrait of a woman driven to the brink of destruction, who learns to believe in love again.'Fizzes and soars' Mark Haddon'Nordenhof has a sort of literary X factor' OBSERVER'Defiantly unique' Financial Times

In the aftermath of a national disaster, a couple look back on their marriage and what it cost them in this groundbreaking novel about capitalism's effect on the human heart<BR><BR>*Guardian best translated fiction of 2025*<BR><BR>'Buzzes with electricity... intriguing, maddening, exciting. I'm in' Observer<BR><BR>'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' Guardian<BR><BR>Maggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together.<BR><BR>Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing 159 people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was revealed not to be an accident, but the result of an insurance scam gone wrong.<BR><BR>How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt? How does money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape?<BR><BR>'Taut and intelligent... a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society' Literary Review<BR><BR>'A comet in Scandinavian literature' OLGA RAVN<BR><BR>'Startling and irresistible' CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT<BR><BR>'Unusual, fascinating, and complicated in the best way' CLAIRE FULLER<BR><BR>'Nordenhof's writing is electrifying' CHETNA MAROO

Im Mittelpunkt der Scandinavian Star-Reihe des neuen dänischen Literaturstars Asta Olivia Nordenhof steht ein schreckliches Feuer an Bord des Nordsee-Kreuzers Scandinavian Star.Die Tragödie, die sich am 6. April 1990 ereignete, führte zum Tod von 159 Menschen. Das schreckliche Ende des stolzen Kreuzers, das auch heute noch viele Rätsel aufgibt, bildet die Klammer der epischen, auf sieben Bände angelegten Romanserie über den Kapitalismus und seine Kollateralschäden. Wurde die Scandinavian Star von der eigenen Besetzung in Brand gesetzt? Steht dieses Boot für die Rücksichtslosigkeit kapitalistischen Handelns und die Bereitschaft, für das Kapital über Leichen zu gehen? Olivia verbringt zwei Wochen in der Londoner Wohnung eines fremden Mannes und beginnt, ihre Vergangenheit niederzuschreiben. Jahre zuvor verkaufte sie sich an den mysteriösen T., der ihr einen Koffer voller Geld für die vollständige Kontrolle über ihren Körper bot. In ihrem gemeinsamen Bett lag stets ein Küchenmesser - Symbol eines tödlichen Spiels, aus dem sich Olivia in letzter Sekunde befreien konnte. Nun begegnet sie diesen Kräften erneut, die sie damals an den Rand der Selbstzerstörung trieben, und fragt sich, ob sie jemals wieder an Liebe glauben kann. "In das enge Feld skandinavischer Mehrteiler-Romane, geprägt von Autoren wie Jon Fosse und Karl Ove Knausgård, tritt ein neuer Stern: Asta Olivia Nordenhof." The Guardian

'Nordenhof has a sort of literary X factor' OBSERVER<BR>'A comet in Scandinavian literature' OLGA RAVN<BR>'Fizzes and soars' MARK HADDON*Guardian best translated fiction of 2025*<BR><BR>A classic girl-meets-boy-meets-devil story from a Danish literary superstar<BR><BR>A woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. She has lived many lives and as she sits out a two-week quarantine in his apartment, she begins to tell her story.<BR><BR>Years ago, desperate for money, she sold herself to a man called T. He offered her a suitcase full of money and lavish gifts in exchange for total control of her body. In the bed between them lay a large kitchen knife and the promise of an iconic death.<BR><BR>At the last moment, she chose life and fled. Now in London, the woman watches the people around her, searching for clues on how to live in the face of betrayal and loss, and what freedom really looks like.<BR><BR>Intimate, revelatory and ultimately revolutionary, this is a portrait of a woman driven to the brink of destruction, who learns to believe in love again.<BR><BR>'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' Guardian<BR><BR>'Defiantly unique' Financial Times