Hafni says
Helle Helle author Martin Aitken translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Akoya Publishing
Publishing:3rd Sep '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 3rd September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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 says she’s getting divorced. To celebrate, she sets out across Denmark on a smørrebrød tour, to taste-test all of the best open-faced sandwiches her country has to offer. One month later, she makes a phone call from a lay-by to tell us where she went, what went wrong and why she’s been gone for three weeks longer than expected.
Marked by Helle Helle’s signature subtlety and infused with her dark humour, Hafni says explores the desire to be anyone but yourself – and what it means to rediscover who you are.
'Hafni Says is a radically experimental and completely unbridled book. It’s a novel about crisis and downfall, about the will to live, alienation, freedom, guilt and shame, and the heavy gaze of expectation. Simply put, it’s a novel about existence…Helle Helle has long proven that her authorship can’t be dismissed in a subordinate clause. Several of her novels already stand as masterpieces in Danish literature. Hafni Says is no exception.'
'Hafni’s story makes you both laugh and cry. Full of situational comedy and consummate humour keen to the quirks of language. Full of sorrow and anxiety, simultaneously conveyed and assuaged by Helle’s marvellous writing (…) I envy anyone who is about to read this novel.
'With its brave insistence on the grammar of consciousness, They shows how we are made by the past and caught in the present, all of us waiting.' <
ISBN: 9781836750277
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
160 pages