Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Translation
In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love.
Intensely moving, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back explores what is it to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death's indomitable resolve.
- ISBN13 9781566895606
- Publish Date 19 September 2019 (first published 21 March 2019)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Coffee House Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Language English