{"product_id":"the-endless-summer-9781940953694","title":"The Endless Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Endless Summer\u003c\/i\u003e by Madame Nielsen is my literary discovery of the year.\" --Sjón\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Once in a while, after you've finished a book and put it down, you wish that the author was a good friend and you could call her whenever you felt sad. It's not something that happens often. But it does when you read Karen Blixen and Marguerite Duras and Virginia Woolf. And Madame Nielsen.\"--Christian Kracht\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist, \u003ci\u003eThe Endless Summer\u003c\/i\u003e confronts ideas of time, sexuality, and tragedy in a style reminiscent of both Marcel Proust and Lars Von Trier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmotional and visceral, the novel drifts through time and space, relating the lives, loves, and dissolutions of everyone who surrounds this unexpected couple: the woman's former husband, who holds the family at gunpoint; her daughter and her lovers, who include a boy who finds himself and his true sexual identity in America; and the young boy who \"is perhaps a girl, but does not yet know it,\" who narrates everyone's stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePropelled by a captivating story, the real charm of the novel resides in its impeccable style and atmosphere, which gathers a sense of longing, a slight nostalgia for times that ache with possibility, while knowing that even the endless summer doesn't last forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn actor, musician, and novelist, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadame Nielsen\u003c\/b\u003e is novelist, artist, performer, stage director and world history enactor, composer, chanteuse, and multi-gendered. Madame Nielsen is the author of numerous literary works, including a trilogy--\u003ci\u003eThe Suicide Mission\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereign\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFall of the Great Satan\u003c\/i\u003e--and most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Endless Summer\u003c\/i\u003e, the \"Bildungsroman\" \u003ci\u003eThe Invasion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Supreme Being.\u003c\/i\u003e Madame Nielsen is translated into nine languages and has received several literary prizes. The autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eMy Encounters with The Great Authors of our Nation\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2013 under her boy's-name, Claus Beck-Nielsen, and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGaye Kynoch\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of a book about Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) and \u003ci\u003eLime's Photograph\u003c\/i\u003e by Leif Davidsen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadame Nielsen\u003c\/b\u003e is novelist, artist, performer, stage director and world history enactor, composer, chanteuse, and multi-gendered. Madame Nielsen is the author of numerous literary works, including a trilogy--\u003ci\u003eThe Suicide Mission\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereign\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFall of the Great Satan\u003c\/i\u003e--and most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Endless Summer\u003c\/i\u003e, the \"Bildungsroman\" \u003ci\u003eThe Invasion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Supreme Being.\u003c\/i\u003e Madame Nielsen is translated into nine languages and has received several literary prizes. The autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eMy Encounters with The Great Authors of our Nation\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2013 under her boy's-name, Claus Beck-Nielsen, and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGaye Kynoch\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance translator of Danish into English, specializing in books and essays on various aspects of the arts, together with plays and works of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528475250962,"sku":"9781940953694","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10a3723d-1d27-4f36-a227-93b059d3350b.jpg?v=1731327146","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-endless-summer-9781940953694","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}