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A Good Read BBC 4: Helen Cross discussing “The God of Chance” Tuesday, July 16, 4.30pm

11 Thursday Jun 2015

Posted by norvikpress in Authors, Kirsten Thorup, The God of Chance

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“a distinguished novel by one of Denmark’s foremost writers … compellingly readable”    Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement

 

9781909408036Norvik Press is looking forward to hearing Helen Cross discuss The God of Chance by Kirsten Thorup on BBC Radio4’s program A Good Read on July 16 at 4.30pm.

The God of Chance focuses on the relationship between Ana, a high-flying Danish career woman from the international finance sector whose work is her life, and the young teenager Mariama, two women whose circumstances are completely different. Ana first meets Mariama selling snacks on a beach in Gambia, and the girl gradually becomes a substitute for the family she has never had. The novel moves to Copenhagen and then to London as Ana brings Mariama to Europe to be educated; the girl finds the cultural shock and living with Ana intensely difficult, whilst Ana’s obsession with her leads to her own carefully controlled life descending into chaos.

Translated by Janet Garton for Norvik Press in 2014, The God of Chance was originally published in Danish in 2011 and is the latest by the prize-winning Danish author Kirsten Thorup. She is well known for her series of four novels about little Jonna from the provinces, which are also about growing up into the rapidly-changing Danish society of the late twentieth century; and Bonsai (2000), an unflinching account of the scourge of Aids and its devastating effect on an ordinary family.

If you would like to purchase a copy it is available online and in all good bookstores.

A Good Read BBC Radio4 Tuesday July 16, 4.30pm
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