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Hafni Says

Hafni Says

Helle, Helle
Aitken, Martin

Paperback

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 15, 2026

ISBN10: 0811239497
ISBN13: 9780811239493
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English

Hafni says: I don't want to be me. I want to change who I am. I don't know how to change who I am.

Hafni has come to the end of her marriage. From a rest stop she phones the novel's narrator--a main character from Helle Helle's previous novel they--but it's she who does all the talking. She's been celebrating impending divorce with a sm rrebr d tour of the southern Danish countryside, where she samples Danish classics, chiefly open-faced sandwiches and afternoon tea. A trip that was meant to take a week digresses once, then twice, until it ends up taking Hafni an entire month. As told in tightly controlled, splintered mini chapters, the book incarnates how Hafni herself digresses, and dwells. She seems to view her past as one long series of accidents and mistakes, the accumulation of which somehow became the life she was living, a life that she now longs to cast off so she can start anew. Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize, Hafni Says is brought into English in a magnificent translation by Martin Aitken.

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