Jessen, Ida (1964-)

A change of time / Ida Jessen ; translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken. - First Archipelago Books edition. - Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books Edition , c2019 - 240 pages ; 17 cm

Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence.


English translated from the Danish

9781939810175 (pbk.)


Women teachers----Fiction
Widows----Fiction
Loss (Psychology)----Fiction
Self-actualization (Psychology)----Fiction
Small cities--Fiction


Diary fiction

PT8176.2.E7977 / N913 2019

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