A #1 bestseller in Denmark, The Land of Short Sentences by Danish author Stine Pilgaard is part of the Read the World A to Z series. Pilgaard, one of the most original, humorous and sharp voices in Scandinavian literature, takes you to a remote rural community in West Denmark with a “gentle satire about orderly Scandinavians set on a provincial school campus that has a powerful sense of place.” (Daily Mail)
A young woman relocates to an outlying community in West Jutland, Denmark. There, she is forced to find her way, not only in the bewildering environment of the residential Folk High School, where her partner has been hired to teach, but also in the inscrutable conversational forms of the local population. On top of it all, there’s the small matter of juggling her roles as mother to a newborn baby and advice columnist in the local newspaper. In this understated and hilarious novel, Stine Pilgaard conjures a tale of venturing into new and uncharted land, of human relationships, dilemmas and the ways and byways of social intercourse.