Queen
Birgitta Trotzig's 1964 novella is the story of a girl named Judit who is stubborn and singular, distant and unyielding. She has a love of lilies. She is called Queen. Her entire world exists within Bäck, a village in the south of Sweden so named because a brook bends through it. At the age of nine...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Archipelago books ;
2026.
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| Summary: | Birgitta Trotzig's 1964 novella is the story of a girl named Judit who is stubborn and singular, distant and unyielding. She has a love of lilies. She is called Queen. Her entire world exists within Bäck, a village in the south of Sweden so named because a brook bends through it. At the age of nine, Judit's mother falls ill during childbirth and passes Judit the strong little body of her brother Viktor. A sharp gleam springs forth from Viktor's pale-blue infant eyes, and the two are bonded for life. Viktor and Judit, along with their wordless brother Albert (one who prefers the warm silence of animals), form a precarious family. In dark and mystical waves of language, Judit's inner life is awakened to the reader. She has her secrets. The Queen prizes her alias like a precious gemstone; she dreams one day that the master gardener at Trolle Ljungby Castle will select her very own flower bulbs for planting; and she holds suspicions like hot stones to her heart. When Viktor decides to emigrate to the United States, the ground beneath Judit's feet forever shifts. -- |
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| Item Description: | First published in Swedish as "Drottningen" from Levande och döda by Bonniers. . |
| Physical Description: | 157 pages : 17 cm |
| ISBN: | 1962770532 9781962770538 |
| Author Notes: | Saskia Vogel was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in Berlin, where she works as a writer, screenwriter, and translator from Swedish and German into English. In 2021 she was awarded the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature, an English PEN Translates Award, and was a PEN America Translation Prize finalist. She was Princeton's Fall 2022 Translator in Residence. Permission (2019), her debut novel, was published in five languages and was longlisted for the Believer Book Award. Alongside Queen , Vogel will translate Trotzig's canonical novel, The Marsh King's Daughter , and her essay collection, The I and the World. Hanne Ørstavik published the debut novel Cut in 1994. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of Love ( Kjærlighet ), which in 2006 was voted the 6th best Norwegian book of the last 25 years in a prestigious contest in Dagbladet , and won the 2019 PEN Translation Prize. Her books Ti Amo , The Pastor , and now Stay with Me have made her one of the most celebrated contemporary Norwegian writers. |
