#niviaq korneliussen

[yourtrashcollector]

Io penso che non le è successo nulla. Penso che purtroppo, semplicemente, non era fatta per vivere, come tanti altri. Dico soltanto che alcune persone non sono brave a vivere come le altre, e può darsi che fosse solo questo, che lei non appartenesse a questo mondo, che non le andasse di vivere, mormoro, in preda al panico.

Niviaq Korneliussen, La valle dei fiori

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[solreads]

Last Night in Nuuk - Review

Title: Last Night In Nuuk (US editions) or Crimson (UK editions)

Author: Niviaq Korneliussen

Translator: Anna Halager

Genre: Contemporary

Audience: Adult

Format: Novel

Representation: Trans man POV character

Summary: Five young Greenlandic adults’ lives interweave as they discover their identities, fall in love, and betray each other. 

Fia goes through the motions of a relationship with a long-term boyfriend she’s fallen out of love with. An encounter with Sara, a beautiful girl at a party ignites a new passion muddled with confusion. 

Her brother Inuk’s life spirals after his friend Arnaq spills a secret that embroils him in public controversy and leaves him ostracized. He questions what it is to be a Greenlander, to be queer, and to forgive. 

Arnaq lives to party, to drink, to fuck, and numb out her trauma. She’s falling in love with Sara’s partner, Ivik, and struggling to find happiness as her past clings to her. 

Ivik wants to please Sara, he wants to make her feel loved, but he can’t stand to let her touch him. The divide between them grows wider as he struggles for an excuse to hide that he does not understand his own actions either.

Sara feels polluted. She feels abandoned. But slowly she realizes a truth that might destroy her relationship, but will let both her and Ivik find happiness and forgiveness. 

Reflections: The writing style or the translation style was unique, a messy, poetic stream of consciousness. I came to enjoy it though it could be disorienting. Inuk’s chapter, which leaned more towards an abstract exploration of identity than the other characters’, worked the best with this style, in my opinion. 

I was left with the weird sense of feeling my connection to the characters was both shallow and deep. The views of their lives were fairly narrow, limited primarily to the five main characters’ interactions with each other and to the parts of their lives concerned with relationships, sexuality, and partying. The narrative zoomed in on singular issues in each character’s life and got very personal, digging into their insecurities and darker thoughts, but the rest of who they were and what sort of lives they lived were neglected to the point the characters didn’t seem like full people.

Ivik’s acceptance of his trans identity was written oddly in that he does not realize or state that he is trans. But Sara gets this epiphany moment where she figures it out without him in the picture, decides with 100% certainty he is a man, completely flips how she thinks about him and their relationship based on this, and then brings it up with him for the first time (by straight up telling him what she’s decided he is). It’s not necessarily offensive – it can even be a nice thought that people sense that you are your true gender no matter what – just presented in a way that seems too simple and unquestioned. It’s treated like there’s some definitive marker of trans manhood and once you see it there’s no question (and no need for tact) when really a person could have had Ivik's experience and have been a woman or nonbinary or not ready for a label. The way Sara’s written then becomes uncomfortable as does the fact that Ivik never gets to give his own account of understanding/accepting his gender.

Warnings: Depictions of misgendering, deadnaming, dysphoria. 

Notes on Rep: Ivik is AFAB and comes to identify as a man.

[hondana]

#24 Last Night in Nuuk - Niviaq Korneliussen | Greenland | literary fiction | 163 pages

A witty and fearless debut from a stunning new voice, Last Night in Nuuk is a work of daring invention about young life in Greenland. Through monologues, emails, and text exchanges, she brilliantly weaves together the coming of age of five distinct characters: a woman who’s “gone off sausage” (men); her brother, in a secret affair with a powerful married man; a lesbian couple confronting an important transition; and the troubled young woman who forces them all to face their fears. With vibrant imagery and daring prose, Korneliussen writes honestly about finding yourself and growing into the person you were meant to be. Praised for creating “its own genre” (Politiken, Denmark), Last Night in Nuuk is a brave entrance onto the literary scene and establishes her as a voice that cannot be ignored.

from: Goodreads

[dillydedalus]

WIT 2024: read + WIT 2024 acquired (physical only, i read & bought a bunch more)

some stats books read: 16 og languages: catalan (3x), croatian, danish, french (3x), greenlandic, japanese (2x), russian, spanish (4x) female translators: 16 books i read (* marks stand-outs)

living pictures, polina barskova, tr. from the russian by catherine ciepiela

butter, asako yuzuki, tr. from the japanese by ursula gräfe / english tr. by polly barton, same title

gesang für die verlorenen, hemley boum, tr. from the french by gudrun & otto honke (no english translation so far)

*grieving: dispatches of a wounded country, cristina rivera garza, tr. from the spanish by sarah booker

*jawbone, mónica ojeda, tr. from the spanish by sarah booker again

*tríptic: permafrost / ***boulder / mammoth, eva baltasar, tr. from the catalan by julia sanches, READ BOULDER READ BOULDER READ BOULDER

days in the caucasus, banine, tr. from the french by anne thompson-ahmadova

my work, olga ravn, translated from the danish by sophia hersi smith

das tal der blumen, niviaq korneliussen, tr. from greenlandic to danish by the author as far as i can tell, tr. from danish to german by franziska hüther (no english translation)

diary of a void, emi yagi, tr. from the japanese by david boyd & lucy north

unser teil der nacht, mariana enríquez, tr. from the spanish by inka marter & silke kleemann (english translation: our share of the night, tr. by megan mcdowell)

so reich wie der könig, abigaïl assor, tr. from the french by nicola denis (english translation: as rich as the king, tr. by natasha lehrer)

fox, dubravka ugrešić, tr. from the croatian by ellen elias-bursać & david williams

the house of spirits, isabel allende, tr. from the spanish by magda bogin

[toastedcinnamonflakes]

Books around the world

A while ago, I made a post that I want to make a list of books from every country of the earth. The qualifications are rather simple: The author needs to be from that country and the novel needs to take place in that country. The books themselves don't need to be the best from that country, just something I've read. They need to exist in a language that I can understand (which, for me, are German, English, Norwegian and Swedish).

If you have any suggestions, please send them to me 😊 So, without further ado, here is the list! (Books that I've already read are bold, books I have picked out for the country but haven't read yet are not)

Abkhazia:

Afghanistan:

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia: The Gray House, Marjam Petrosyan

Austria: Liebelei, Arthur Schnitzler

Australia: Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile: The House of Spirits, Isabella Allende

China: Beijng Comrades, Bei Tong

Colombia

Congo

Costa Rica

Croatia: Marble Skin, Slavenka Draculic

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic: Valerie and her world of wonders, Vitêzslav Nezval

Denmark: Vintereventyr, Karen Blixen

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Fiji

Finland

France: The End of Eddy, Eduard Louis

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany: Krabbat, Otfried Preußler

Ghana

Greece: Medea, Euripides (I would love to read a contemporary greek novel tbh, please recommend me one!)

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland: Moonstone - The Boy Who Never Was, Sjón

India: The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga

Indonesia

Iran: Reading Lolita in Teheran, Azar Nafisi

Iraq

Ireland: Skulduggery Pleasent, Derek Landy

Israel

Italy: Swimming to Elba, Silvia Avallone

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan: Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

North Korea

North Macedonia

Norway: Vildskudd, Gudmund Vindland

Oman

Pakistan

Palestina

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland:

Portugal

Quatar

Romania

Russia: Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Somalia

South Africa

South Korea: The Vegetarian, Han Kang

South Sudan

Spain

Sri Lanka: Die sieben Monde des Maali Almeida, Sheban Karunatilaka

Sudan

Suriname

Sweden: Herrn Arnes Penningar, Selma Lagerlöf

Switzerland: Homo Faber, Max Frisch

Syria

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine: Kult, Ljubko Deresch

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

USA: The little Friend, Donna Tartt

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Vietnam

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

I am also including some parts of the world that are not independent countries, but that I want to have in this list:

Faroese Islands

Greenland: Blomsterdalen, Niviaq Korneliussen

Scotland: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg

Wales: Fire and Hemlock, Dianna Wynne Jones

[queerlitaroundtheworld]

Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen - Greenland

A work of daring invention about young life in Greenland, Korneliussen brilliantly weaves together the coming of age of five young people in the capital city, Nuuk. Fia has recently sworn off sausage (men) only to discover that the woman she wants is unavailable. Arnaq struggles to cope with her past as her hard-partying life spirals out of control and she betrays those she loves most. Inuk, Fia's brother, is forced to escape Greenland after political scandal implicates him, and confronts the true meaning of home. Meanwhile, Ivik and Sara must confront an important transition in their relationship. In a collection of blurry nights and bleary mornings after, Korneliussen creates a Greenlandic literature unlike any we have known before--young, urbane, stream-of-consciousness, studded with textspeak and delirious with nightlife.

[lizard-reads-the-world]

🎊 2-Year Anniversary! 🪅

I started the World Challenge around April 2022, so here's my little 2-year celebratory post with a bunch of stats that no one cares about!!

The stats:

Books read: 70

Countries completed: 66

Total pages read: 23,918

Average rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 3.9 stars

Average publication year: 2015

Average page count per book: 341

Native authors: 74%

Queer books: 24%

YA or MG genre: 68%

As you can see from the number above, it can be hard to find queer books for certain countries. I have also somehow managed to generally pick books that I like, as the ratings show!

Top Genres:

Sources:

Total spent: $41.39

Most of the spent is 2 months of Scribd, and some Kindle sale books. The "Other" is, ahem, when there were no affordable options, and thankfully that was low! Otherwise I managed well with libraries and free trials! (all digital)

Time Periods:

I've also spent the majority of time in the modern world.

Keep reading for the full list of books I've read so far:

🇦🇫 Afghanistan - One Half from the East, Nadia Hashimi

🇦🇷 Argentina - Furia, Yamile Saied Méndez

🇦🇺 Australia - Ghost Bird, Lisa Fuller

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan - The Orphan Sky, Ella Leya

🇧🇸 Bahamas - Facing the Sun, Janice Lynn Mathers

🇧🇴 Bolivia - Woven in Moonlight, Isabel Ibañez

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina - The Cat I Never Named, Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

🇧🇼 Botswana - Entwined, Cheryl S. Ntumy

🇧🇬 Bulgaria - Wunderkind, Nikolai Grozni

🇨🇦 Canada - This House is Not a Home, Katłıà

🇨🇫 Central African Republic - Beasts of Prey, Ayana Gray*

🇹🇩 Chad - Told by Starlight in Chad, Joseph Brahim Seid

🇨🇳 China - Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Sue Lynn Tan

🇨🇺 Cuba - A Tall Dark Trouble - Vanessa Montalban

🇨🇿 Czech Republic - Torch, Lyn Miller-Lachmann

🇩🇰 Denmark - The Shamer's Daughter, Lene Kaaberbøl

🇪🇪 Estonia - The Man Who Spoke Snakish, Andrus Kivirähk

🇫🇯 Fiji - The Wild Ones, Nafiza Azad

🇫🇷 France - Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, Faïza Guène

🇬🇪 Georgia - Giorgland Fables, Tamuna Tsertsvadze

🇬🇷 Greece - Threads That Bind, Kika Hatzopoulou

🇬🇱 Greenland - Last Night in Nuuk, Niviaq Korneliussen

🇬🇩 Grenada - Sugar Money, Jane Harris

🇮🇳 India - Lioness of Punjab, Anita Jari Kharbanda

🇮🇩 Indonesia - The Songbird and the Ramubutan Tree - Lucille Abendanon

🇮🇷 Iran - Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

🇮🇶 Iraq - Yazidi!, Aurélien Ducoudray & Mini Ludvin

🇮🇪 Ireland - All Our Hidden Gifts, Caroline O'Donoghue

🇯🇵 Japan - Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Mizuki Tsujimura

🇯🇴 Jordan - West of the Jordan, Laila Halaby

🇱🇹 Lithuania - Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepatys

🇱🇺 Luxembourg - The Elf of Luxembourg, Tom Weston

🇲🇾 Malaysia - The Weight of Our Sky, Hanna Alkaf

🇲🇹 Malta - The Maltese Dreamer, Catherine Veritas

🇲🇽 Mexico - Secret of the Moon Conch, David Bowles; Guadalupe García McCall

🇲🇦 Morocco - Thorn, Intisar Khanani*

🇳🇵 Nepal - What Elephants Know - Eric Dinerstein

🇳🇱 Netherlands - On the Edge of Gone, Corrine Duyvis

🇳🇬 Nigeria - An Ordinary Wonder, Buki Papillon

🇲🇰 North Macedonia - A Spare Life, Lidija Dimkovska

🇵🇸 Palestine - Travellers Along the Way, Aminah Mae Safi

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea - Tales from Faif, Baka Barakove Bina; Emily Sekepe Bina

🇵🇱 Poland - When the Angels Left the Old Country, Sacha Lamb

🇵🇹 Portugal - Mariana, Katherine Vaz

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico - The Wicked Bargain, Gabe Cole Novoa

🇷🇴 Romania - And I Darken, Kiersten White

🇷🇺 Russia - Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko

🇷🇼 Rwanda - Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga

🇱🇨 St. Lucia - 'Til I Find You, Greta Bondieumaitre

🇼🇸 Samoa - Telesā: The Covenant Keeper, Lani Wendt Young

🇸🇲 San Marino - The Gladiator, Harry Turtledove

🇸🇹 São Tomé & Príncipe - The Exiles of Crocodile Island, Henye Meyer

🇬🇧 Scotland - The Library of the Dead, T.L. Huchu

🇸🇳 Senegal - No Heaven for Good Boys, Keisha Bush

🇸🇬 Singapore - Sofia and the Utopia Machine, Judith Huang

🇸🇰 Slovakia - Impossible Escape, Steve Sheinkin

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka - I Am Kavi, Thushanthi Ponweera

🇸🇩 Sudan - Home is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo

🇸🇪 Sweden - The Circle, Sara Elfgren; Mats Strandberg

🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago - When the Vibe is Right, Sarah Dass

🇹🇳 Tunisia - Other Names, Other Places, Ola Mustapha

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson*

🇺🇸 United States - Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger

🇻🇪 Venezuela - The Sun and the Void, Gabriela Romero Lacruz

🇾🇪 Yemen - When a Bulbul Sings, Hawaa Ayoub

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe - All That It Ever Meant, Blessing Musariri

*inspired fantasy world

[madtomedgar]

books read in December:

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, Jesmyn Ward: Great essays, really liked it, learned a lot. At the same time I am starting to feel like the issue isn’t so much needing to learn new information as much as it is consistently listening and understanding and applying what I do already know, and I do wish there was more about that, if that makes sense.

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond: I had been putting off reading this for years because it felt like a book I should read and I kind of assumed it would be like a long article or a series of housing white papers. It is the opposite of that. It’s rare you find writing this good in nonfiction. Everyone should read this. I did have to keep taking breaks because it was very upsetting, just the realities of this system which I knew about already from the perspective of working with voucher holders and people trying to get vouchers. But probably the best nonfiction I’ve read since the pandemic.

Chemistry, Weike Wang: I liked the stream-of-consciousness style, almost like reading someone’s diary. I found the main character’s struggle with expectations, with herself, and with coming to terms with both what her parents did to her and and did for her really compelling. It helped me better understand my friends who are or have been in graduate programs. A little hetero for me but nothing’s perfect.

False Bingo, Jac Jemc: So the stories are clever and the author builds suspense well, and the one about the board game couple was a  delightfully scathing portrait of trying to have friends in your 30s. But. They were mostly kind of boring, kind of caught up in their own cleverness, kind of suffused with a certain middle-class midwestern realism that I find dull and off-putting, and occasionally kind of tone-deaf to the point of offensive. There’s one where these women in this town keep getting attacked and the twist is that one woman lied about being attacked to get herself out of a difficult conversation with her boyfriend, and then all the others wanted to feel special and included so they faked it too, and the people honestly upset about the violence against women are chumps who should have known better. And like... sure, fiction should absolutely be able to just go “if there were two guys on the moon and one killed another with a rock would that be fucked up or what!” but. Jac Jemc isn’t Gillian Flynn, who can and does pull this type of subversion off well. And reading it during the current backlash, in the wake of the Amber Heard debacle and while Meghan Thee Stallion was being pilloried for being attacked and daring to say she was, like I said, tone-deaf to the point of offensive.

Last Night in Nuuk, Niviaq Korneliussen, trans. Anna Halagar: Mama Mia wishes its big night was half as wild as the big night in this story. Again, I found the stream of consciousness style enjoyable, though this was more like being tapped into someone’s internal monologue who is very hung over. It’s gay, it’s queer, it’s trans, it’s complicated. I... really wish authors would stop having their queer women characters declare that being with a butch woman is “just like a man without the penis.” And like. How you know they’re Real Lesbians is that they’re into women not ugly bull-dykes. I also wish the trans man’s trans-ness had felt less like it could just have easily been stone butch-ness. But I think that’s more of a me problem where like... I have had enough people treat the state where I exist comfortably as both gross and a pit-stop on the way to inevitable transition (which I don’t want for me) that stories that even unintentionally play into that aren’t enjoyable to me, even as I recognize that they’re transformative and important for others.

[adito-lang]

23 books for 2023

East Asian

해가 지는 곳으로　To the Warm Horizon (Choi Jin-young)

膜　The Membranes (Chi Ta-wei)

かがみの孤城　Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Tsujimura Mizuki) 

独り��　Solo Dance (Li Kotomi)

密やかな結晶　The Memory Police (Ogawa Yōko)

Scandinavian

Feminin gange (Molly Øxnevad)

Norsk Nok (ed. Mala Naveen)

Hør Her’a (Gulraiz Sharif) 

Blomsterdalen (Niviaq Korneliussen) - Originally in Danish but I have the Norwegian translation

Aniara (Harry Martinson)

Björnstad (Fredrik Backman)

Hästpojkarna (Johan Ehn) - Originally in Swedish but I have the Norwegian translation Hesteguttene 

African

Born a Crime (Trevor Noah)

The Death of Vivek Oji (Akwaeke Emezi) 

Kintu (Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi) 

Dutch and German

Half (Baron Ali)

Wij slaven van Suriname (Anton de Kom)

De Goede Immigrant (ed. Dipsans Podcast)

Herkunft (Saša Stanišić)

Und Gad ging zu David (Gad Beck)

Das Integrationsparadox (Aladin El-Mafaalani)

Scottish and British

The Wages of Sin (Kaite Welsh) 

Maurice (E.M. Forster) 

[weirdgirlification]

2022 book list

favorites bolded, sorted by dates read

catch the rabbit by lana bastasic

grandmaster of demonic cultivation, volume 1 by mo xiang tong xiu

heaven official’s blessing, volume 1 by mo xiang tong xiu

cassandra at the wedding by dorothy baker

ms ice sandwich by mieko kawakami

like by ali smith

annihilation by jeff vandermeer

sarahland by sam cohen

drive your plow over the bones of the dead by olga tocarczuk

problems by jade sharma

winter by ali smith

a novel obsession by caitlin barasch

mislaid by nell zink

milk fed by melissa broder

asymmetry by lisa halliday

certain american states by catherine lacey

heaven official’s blessing, volume 2 by mo xiang tong xiu

spring by ali smith

girl meets boy by ali smith

either/or by elif batuman

nightshift by kiare ladner

tin man by sarah winman

white ivy by susie yang

acts of service by lillian fishman

sea of tranquility by emily st. john mandel

time is a mother by ocean vuong

fates and furies by lauren groff

girls can kiss now by jill gutowitz

jade legacy by fonda lee

the accidental by ali smith

i’m glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy

crimson by niviaq korneliussen

our wives under the sea by julia armfield

the answers by catherine lacey

babel by r.f. kuang

history of wolves by emily fridlund

the bell jar by sylvia plath

second place by rachel cusk

my brilliant friend by elena ferrante

everything i need i get from you by kaitlyn tiffany

[yourtrashcollector]

Un’altra ipotesi è che, dopo un inverno freddo e buio, ci si consoli con il pensiero dell’arrivo di giorni più caldi e chiari, ma quando questi finalmente arrivano ci si accorga che la vita non migliora. Non migliora mai.

Niviaq Korneliussen, La valle dei fiori

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[arcticnarratives]

La Vallée des Fleurs, Niviaq Korneliussen, 2020

[oceannacaldin]

Homo-Sapienne (Pride rec)

On continue sur la lancée de mes recommandations partielles et partiales de livres queer pour le mois des fiertés ! Le précédent est ici.

Homo-Sapienne de Niviaq Korneliussen

Quelqu'un me disait récemment à propos d'un autre livre : c'est un premier roman et il a des maladresses, mais elles y rajoutent de l'humanité au lieu de le desservir. Et en rouvrant Homo Sapienne au hasard, je me dis que ça s'applique grave à ce roman.

Homo-Sapienne, donc, c'est cinq histoires qui s'emboîtent et se complètent les unes et les autres où on suit cinq jeunes à un moment charnière de leurs vies à Nuuk, la capitale du Groëland. Qui découvre sa sexualité, son genre, qui choisi de vivre, qui choisi de pardonner...

Plus largement, on est entre le roman social et le côté own voice, et c'est un de ces romans où le mélange est particulièrement réussi parce que les deux se nourrissent et se répondent.

Et puis, c'est mon genre de roman préféré, où les personnages sont faillibles, ne font toujours pas les bons choix, et où il y a un choix assez consistant de toujours se tourner vers la guérison et l'avenir quelque soit ce qu'il s'est passé avant. Et je trouve ça assez rare comme équilibre, dès qu'on se tourne vers la frange très... écrite de la littérature.

Justement, pour parler de la langue et de l'écriture, il y a un très beau travail de traduction pour rendre l'aspect multilingue du roman (originellement un tryptique entre le groënlandais, le danois et l'anglais) et bon, j'aime les langues, et j'aime comment elle va de l'une à l'autre pour dire des choses différentes.

Allez, juste pour vous faire entendre ce que ça peut donner :

And then something like, qu'est-ce qu'il se passe, tu vas bien, tu pars, que vas-tu faire, tu me quittes, osovider, osovider, osovider*, and I'm like il faut que tu m'écoutes, asseyons-nous pour parler, je t'aime, je ne suis pas heureuse, tu n'es pas heureux, je trouve que ma vie manque de quelque chose même si on ne manque de rien, j'ai besoin d'être moi-même parce que nous ne sommes pas heureux etc., and the drama begins, n'es-tu pas en sécurité, pourquoi ne veux-tu pas rester avec moi, qu'est-ce que j'ai fait, est-ce que j'ai fait quelque chose de mal, ai-je été maladroit, and the golden words like, non, j'en ai assez de la sécurité, tu n'as rien fait de mal, je veux me débrouiller tout seule, je me trouver, moi moi moi and never you, it never is and so on (...). *osovider est la transcription phonétique de "og sa videre" le danois pour "et cetera".

[queerlitaroundtheworld]

Book 8/197

Country: Greenland

Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen

A series of incredibly interconnected stories about queer people in Greenland. I found the writing engaging and the characters interesting. This was another short and easy read.