The debut novel from the winner of the Nordic Council's Literature prize about the portrait of a man whose life slowly devolves into one of violence and jealousy. Translated by K.E. Semmel.
Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of seven collections of poetry and five short story collections, including Baboon (Two Lines Press), which received the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and the Danish Critics Prize for Literature. Rock, Paper, Scissors is her first novel.
K.E. Semmel is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in Ontario Review, the Washington Post, Aufgabe, The Brooklyn Review, The Bitter Oleander, and elsewhere. His translations include books by Karin Fossum, Erik Valeur, and Simon Fruelund.
