RaveAsymptoteNors brings Denmark’s western coast to life ... Each essay offers an exquisite, layered exploration of a different stretch of that wild North Sea coast ... Nors is one of Denmark’s best-known living writers, and the possibility that this project might not have existed soon comes to feel unimaginable, as each chapter unfolds in poetry that becomes as much an exploration of self as one of place ... In inviting readers to her corner of the world, Nors reveals the intimate secrets and memories that make a place real ... no ordinary travel memoir, and its line connects the stories of each place like living tissue. Nors observes what others would not, mixing memory, history, nature, culture, and journalism in a deeply personal exploration of Danish geography ... leaves readers fully steeped in places that are rarely trod ... Waight’s beautiful translation is a gift, rendering one of the few books on this region in captivating prose. What’s unexpected is the familiarity English readers may find in these far-off places ... There are many lines in this world to contemplate, but in accompanying Dorthe Nors along this one, we access something of the universal in the search for identity and belonging.
