RaveThe New York Times...despite a story that moves from Copenhagen to Paris to Dresden and back to Denmark again, this is the novel's true locus, its place of narrative urgency ... Ebershoff sets out to see his couple through their six-year journey toward Einar's nearly complete surgical and psychological transformation into Lili. Along the way, he seeks to dramatize the often contradictory relationship between necessity and desire, and the surprising, and affirming, adaptability of love ...The Danish Girl conjures a memorable look inside the mysterious black box of human sexuality ... The reader is inside a man who is changing, ambiguously and honestly, even as the words follow him on his strange journey. This is revelation, not clarification.
