© Jensen and Dalgaard, 2016
This bleak, memorable novel opens with a scene of excruciating psychological violence, in which a damaged father forces his two sons to strip to the waist and attack each other. It's a terrifying episode that foreshadows everything in the book, shades of it reappearing intermittently in shifting forms, always threatening to kick a way back into the main narrative. When this finally happens, the consequences are jaw-droppingly shocking. But so assiduously plotted and persuasive is Swallowing the Sun that no other resolution would have been credible.
Bloomsbury 2004
Translated into: Danish
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