{"title":"Books by Thomas Korsgaard","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"el-patio","title":"El patio (vol. 2)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"190\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"190\"\u003eIN A BROKEN WORLD, NOT FITTING IN IS A PRIVILEGE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"433\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"202\"\u003eEl patio\u003c\/em\u003e is the first volume of the \u003cstrong data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"249\"\u003eTue Trilogy\u003c\/strong\u003e, the work with which \u003cstrong data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"290\"\u003eThomas Korsgaard\u003c\/strong\u003e has shaken contemporary Danish literature and which was recognized with the \u003cem data-start=\"366\" data-end=\"392\"\u003eDe Gyldne Laurbær Award\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem data-start=\"398\" data-end=\"424\"\u003eOtto B. Lindhardt Award\u003c\/em\u003e in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"435\" data-end=\"1013\"\u003eTue lives with his family on an isolated farm at the end of a dusty road. The world around him is harsh and precarious: breeding dogs, cows, dead animals piled up in the yard, an irascible father obsessed with obituaries, and a silent mother who spends hours playing online card games. Breakfast is hard bread with butter and sugar. Money is scarce, and survival depends on small hustles, improvised sales, or occasional thefts that, from time to time, allow a toast with a bottle of cheap wine and pretending life is something else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1453\"\u003eAmid this impoverished rural landscape, Tue observes, imagines, and resists. His creativity and wit become an intimate refuge, the only way to endure an environment that offers no comfort. Through everyday scenes, Korsgaard builds a fragmentary and precise narrative, where the seemingly trivial reveals deep tensions and where desire appears subtly, never fully named, but always present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1788\"\u003eWith prose that combines rawness, humor, and unexpected tenderness, \u003cem data-start=\"1522\" data-end=\"1532\"\u003eEl patio\u003c\/em\u003e transcends rural realism to become a powerful portrait of childhood, poverty, and the ability to not give up. An intense and luminous novel about growing up on the margins and learning to breathe within a world that seems to leave no space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56733521936728,"sku":"LIB-EL-RA-513","price":21.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788439744764.jpg?v=1771287318"},{"product_id":"la-ciudad-trilogia-de-tue-2-random-house","title":"La ciudad (vol. 1)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"133\" data-end=\"180\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"133\" data-end=\"180\"\u003eFIRST PARTY, FIRST LOVE, FIRST SECRET\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"343\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"193\"\u003eThe City\u003c\/em\u003e is the \u003cstrong data-start=\"200\" data-end=\"241\"\u003esecond volume of the Tue Trilogy\u003c\/strong\u003e, the literary phenomenon with which \u003cstrong data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"296\"\u003eThomas Korsgaard\u003c\/strong\u003e has renewed contemporary Danish narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"345\" data-end=\"735\"\u003eAfter a workers' compensation settlement, Tue's mother manages to pay off the farm's debts and superficially renew family life. However, beneath the recent varnish, the same cracks persist: a violent and unpredictable father, a mother in love with another man, and a secret that seventeen-year-old Tue must keep while trying to understand who he is and what he wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"737\" data-end=\"1125\"\u003eTorn between the oppressive silence of the farm and the promise of freedom he finds in the city, where his friend Iben lives, Tue begins to expand the boundaries of his world. There he discovers friendship, first parties, music that moves through the body, and the possibility of a different future. He also learns that no one can name for him what he feels: his identity belongs to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1555\"\u003eWith writing that combines delicacy, humor, and disarming honesty, \u003cem data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1215\"\u003eThe City\u003c\/em\u003e captures that decisive moment when life begins to make its way. Korsgaard confirms here his talent for portraying the transition to adulthood and establishes himself as the voice of a generation that rebels against inherited silence. A luminous and intense novel about awakening, desire, and the need to choose one's own path.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56733544612184,"sku":"LIB-LA-RA-514","price":21.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788439745167.jpg?v=1771287402"},{"product_id":"paraiso-trilogia-de-tue-3-random-house","title":"Paraíso (vol. 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePRECARITY, CLASS, AND DESIRE; OTHER PEOPLE'S SOFAS AND PIOUS LIES.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conclusion of the Tue Trilogy, the great phenomenon of Danish literature in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Thomas Korsgaard’s trademark is writing lightly about the difficult aspects of life.”\u003cbr\u003eBørse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTue is now seventeen years old and alone in Copenhagen. After being kicked out of the room he lived in, he has nowhere to go. He starts wandering the city streets carrying only the essentials. By day he sells newspapers; by night he sleeps wherever he can. He lives in a constant state of alertness, improvising gestures and lies to go unnoticed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a coworker and her mother offer him temporary shelter, Tue discovers a new world. That bourgeois, comfortable, and protected home seems to promise stability, but the spell of class privilege soon breaks, exposing the social and emotional distance between those who have always had a place and those who have learned to survive without one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Paradise, the novel that closes the Tue trilogy, Thomas Korsgaard writes with precise and restrained prose about exclusion, shame, and the difficulty of starting over; and paints a fierce portrait of a young man who refuses to be a victim, even if it means crossing certain boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Tue Trilogy it has been said:\u003cbr\u003e“The Tue Trilogy has become a paradigmatic example of the new paths European literature is taking today.”\u003cbr\u003eZenda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Korsgaard has created his own world that one enters as if in a state of total intoxication.”\u003cbr\u003eFrank Keil, literaturblatt.ch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Korsgaard has exceptional storytelling talent, with a sharp sense of humor and a deep understanding of human relationships. 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