Mona

Tag med Mona i livets skole: fortabt - forført - forsørger - forstandig - forelsket.Dorte Karrebæk har tegnet en fortælling om Mona og mændene i hendes liv.Dorte Karrebæk siger om sin baggrund for at fortælle historien: "I hele børnebilledbogens historie, har forældre været nogle fraværende væsener, der havde en servicefunktion. De lavede mad, gjorde rent og læste højt om aftenen. - Eller de skændtes og så vidste man, at det var en skilsmissebog. Jeg har selv gavmildt bidraget med begge dele. Nu har jeg lavet en bog om en forælder. En bog, der antyder, at tilværelsen måske styres af tilfældigheder, og at det ikke nødvendigvis er dårligt. En bog om Mona, der prøver at gøre det så godt, hun kan, selv når alting er sort uheld."

Tag med Mona i livets skole: fortabt - forført - forsørger - forstandig - forelsket.Dorte Karrebæk har tegnet en fortælling om Mona og mændene i hendes liv.Dorte Karrebæk siger om sin baggrund for at fortælle historien: "I hele børnebilledbogens historie, har forældre været nogle fraværende væsener, der havde en servicefunktion. De lavede mad, gjorde rent og læste højt om aftenen. - Eller de skændtes og så vidste man, at det var en skilsmissebog. Jeg har selv gavmildt bidraget med begge dele. Nu har jeg lavet en bog om en forælder. En bog, der antyder, at tilværelsen måske styres af tilfældigheder, og at det ikke nødvendigvis er dårligt. En bog om Mona, der prøver at gøre det så godt, hun kan, selv når alting er sort uheld."

'Devil-may-care daring and biting humour . . . Think Rachel Cusk's autofiction on skunk and OxyContin and you're in the right ballpark' The Times 'Enjoyably mischievous and daring' Financial Times 'Ruthless, very funny' New York Times Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. In the humanities she has discovered she is something of an anthropological curiosity - a female writer of colour treasured for the flourish of rarefied diversity that reflects so well upon her department. When she is nominated for 'the most important literary award in Europe', Mona sees a chance to escape her sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, and leaves for a small village in Sweden. Now she is stuck in the company of her competitors, who arrive from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran and Colombia. The writers do what writers do: exchange flattery, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back and go to bed together. But all the while, Mona keeps stumbling across traces of violence on her body, the origins of which she can't - or won't - remember.

'Devil-may-care daring and biting humour . . . Think Rachel Cusk's autofiction on skunk and OxyContin and you're in the right ballpark' The Times 'Enjoyably mischievous and daring' Financial Times 'Ruthless, very funny' New York Times Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. In the humanities she has discovered she is something of an anthropological curiosity - a female writer of colour treasured for the flourish of rarefied diversity that reflects so well upon her department. When she is nominated for 'the most important literary award in Europe', Mona sees a chance to escape her sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, and leaves for a small village in Sweden. Now she is stuck in the company of her competitors, who arrive from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran and Colombia. The writers do what writers do: exchange flattery, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back and go to bed together. But all the while, Mona keeps stumbling across traces of violence on her body, the origins of which she can't - or won't - remember.