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clairedelaney's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
annebredrup's review against another edition
4.0
Quote «Og man skal passe på hvilke historier man forteller seg selv […]»
brynperry's review
4.0
Evocative nature writing, exploration of human relationships to land, really enjoyed
sausome's review
5.0
5/5 stars - One of the most poetic and beautiful ruminations on a place that I've read in a long time. I loved the way the author wove together memory, visual impressions, physical landscapes, and the sensory elements of the weather with a kind of travelogue of this Denmark coastline. Dorthe Nors paints a picture that is stark yet bursting at the seams with history and nature. She gives us a brutal landscape married with a beautiful people and quietude that comes from a landscape that forces one to reckon with themselves and all before them.
One of my favorite thoughts to come from this book is the idea that comes from her conversations with a neuropsychologist friend while she's standing on a Jutland "mountain" surrounded by pathways and memories of visiting as a child. Her friend, Ylva says, "The landscape still bears traces of individual human beings' experience of it. ... Your memories of a particular landscape are stored in a network connected to all the associations you had when you went there for the very first time. When you go back, it activates that." She writes, "The edges of the harbour quay, the presence of death, I think, I write: 'The landscape is an archive of memory.'"
One of my favorite thoughts to come from this book is the idea that comes from her conversations with a neuropsychologist friend while she's standing on a Jutland "mountain" surrounded by pathways and memories of visiting as a child. Her friend, Ylva says, "The landscape still bears traces of individual human beings' experience of it. ... Your memories of a particular landscape are stored in a network connected to all the associations you had when you went there for the very first time. When you go back, it activates that." She writes, "The edges of the harbour quay, the presence of death, I think, I write: 'The landscape is an archive of memory.'"