He closed the notebook. ‘I’ve started writing down my thoughts to my daughter.’
He felt movement on his hand. Fingers searching. He turned over his hand and opened his palm. It was the first time he felt her skin.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MADS PEDER NORDBO is a Danish writer who lives in Greenland and works at the town hall in Nuuk. He holds degrees in literature, communications and philosophy from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Stockholm. He is the author of five novels; his two latest books will be published in eighteen languages. The Girl Without Skin is the first to be published in English.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
CHARLOTTE BARSLUND is a Scandinavian translator. She has translated novels by Peter Adolphsen, Mikkel Birkegaard, Thomas Enger, Karin Fossum, Steffen Jacobsen, Carsten Jensen and Per Petterson, as well as a wide range of classic and contemporary plays. She lives in the UK.
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Copyright © Mads Peder Nordbo and JP/Politikens Hus A/S, 2017 Translation copyright © Charlotte Barslund, 2018
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Originally published in Denmark as Pigen uden hud by Politikens Forlag, Copenhagen, 2017 First published in English by The Text Publishing Company, 2018
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ISBN: 9781925603835 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781925626803 (ebook)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia
