Kirsten’s Revenge
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Additional Info
- ISBN: 9781966192107
- Size: 4.5" x 7"
- Pages: 176
- Publication Date: February 23, 2027
Murder, sex, and dressage: Heathers meets Black Beauty in this sparkling and unapologetic coming-of-age thriller.
Kirsten runs the arena, as both daughter of the stable owner and center of the horse girl clique. Kirsten loves horses. Horses are powerful. Horses are dangerous. Horses know how to win. Horses have taught her more about growing up than anyone else, certainly more than her mother who has grown quieter and more useless since her new boyfriend Steen, her mom’s new boyfriend, moved in.
Karina, Anita, and Wasp have always been her best friends. They are a tightly bound group that ride, share secrets, party, and shoplift together, but rifts are beginning to form. Their haircuts no longer match. They are fighting over boys and horses. And they aren’t really sure about Kirsten’s increasingly bizarre plot to murder Steen.
Kristen’s Revenge is an electric new novel by Bjorn Rasmussen, former horse girl and internationally acclaimed poet and novelist, about the unbridled violence of girlhood.
Praise
“What has six legs and smells like gasoline? A horse girl who is about to commit arson… Bjørn Rasmussen is a loner who seems fairly unaffected by literary trends and writes about whatever suits him in a deadpan and insanely charming language.” —Berlingske
“Bjørn Rasmussen’s new novel is sensationally direct and stylish, with coolness on a short leash, depicting a horse girl’s rash but wholeheartedly murderous radicalization.”—Weekendavisen
“…both new and loyal Bjørn Rasmussen readers can take Kirsten’s wickedly delicious bite with great pleasure. Bjørn Rasmussen has been wonderfully good since his debut and this time he is vengefully excellent.” —Politiken
Praise for Bjorn Rasmussen
“[A] truly original literary voice.” — Entropy, Best Fiction of 2019
“Rasmussen has managed to stretch the soul in the way a butcher might stretch flesh, asking us to consider the roots of our desires and the depths of our longings.” ―Full Stop
“Darkly beautiful and fearless.” ―Book Riot
Bjørn Rasmussen
Bjørn Rasmussen was born in 1983 and graduated from the Danish Playwright School in 2007 and from the Danish Writers’ School in 2011. He received the Montana Literary Award in 2011 for The Skin Is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body, was awarded a three-year work grant from the Danish government in 2013, and received the Kultur Bornholms Literary Award in 2014.
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Bjørn Rasmussen was born in 1983 and graduated from the Danish Playwright School in 2007 and from the Danish Writers’ School in 2011. He received the Montana Literary Award in 2011 for The Skin Is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body, was awarded a three-year work grant from the Danish government in 2013, and received the Kultur Bornholms Literary Award in 2014.
Martin Aitken
Martin Aitken is a widely published translator of Danish literature. He received the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Translation Prize in 2012. He has translated numerous books, including Dorthe Nors’ Karate Chop, and he co-translated volume 6 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle with Don Bartlett.
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Martin Aitken is a widely published translator of Danish literature. He received the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Translation Prize in 2012. He has translated numerous books, including Dorthe Nors’ Karate Chop, and he co-translated volume 6 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle with Don Bartlett.