Bücher von Naja Marie Aidt

'I raise my glass to my eldest son. His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping above us. Outside, the March evening is cold and clear. "To life!" I say as the glasses clink with a delicate and pleasing sound. My mother says something to the dog. Then the phone rings. We don't answer it. Who could be calling so late on a Saturday evening?' In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's 25-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back is about losing a child. It is about formulating a vocabulary to express the deepest kind of pain. And it's about finding a way to write about a reality invaded by grief, lessened by loss. Faced with the sudden emptiness of language, Naja finds solace in the anguish of Joan Didion, Nick Cave, C.S. Lewis, Mallarme, Plato and other writers who have suffered the deadening impact of loss. Their torment suffuses with her own as Naja wrestles with words and contests their capacity to speak for the depths of her sorrow. This palimpsest of mourning enables Naja to turn over the pathetic, precious transience of existence and articulates her greatest fear: to forget. The insistent compulsion to reconstruct the harrowing aftermath of Carl's death keeps him painfully present, while fragmented memories, journal entries and poetry inch her closer to piecing Carl's life together. Intensely moving and quietly devastating, this is what is it to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death's indomitable resolve.

Im März 2015 kommt Naja Marie Aidts 25-jähriger Sohn Carl bei einem tragischen Unfall ums Leben. »Carls Buch« hält jene Monate nach dem verheerenden Anruf aus dem Krankenhaus fest. Sehr persönlich, aber gleichzeitig von erstaunlicher Allgemeingültigkeit schreibt die preisgekrönte dänische Schriftstellerin über den Versuch, das Unbegreifliche zu verstehen. Wie wir mit der Tatsache fertig werden, dass das Leben einfach so aufhört. Wie der Tod eines geliebten Menschen uns an die Grenze von Sprache führt. Wie wir Trost finden - bei Freunden und Familie, in unseren Erinnerungen und in der Literatur. Ergreifend, sprachlich brillant, mutig und unvergesslich.