{"product_id":"when-death-takes-something-from-you-give-it-back-carls-book-9781566895934","title":"When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Award\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother's grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. \u003ci\u003eWhen Death Takes Something from You Give It Back\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eWhen Death Takes Something from You Give It Back\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, including \u003ci\u003eBaboon, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDenise Newman is a translator and poet who has published three collections of poetry. She has translated two books by Denmark's Inger Christensen. Her translation of Naja Marie Aidt's short-fiction collection \u003ci\u003eBaboon\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2015 PEN Translation Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528666222866,"sku":"9781566895934","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ef947a29-7553-45fb-81c6-31d0fe3e39e5.jpg?v=1731334301","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/when-death-takes-something-from-you-give-it-back-carls-book-9781566895934","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}