Ida Jessen is the author of A Change of Time (En Ny Tid), which
received the Blixen Prize and Danish Radio's Best Novel Prize, as
well as several bestselling and award-winning novels. A member of
the Danish Academy, she is known as a master of psychological
realism. She has also translated the work of Marilynne Robinson and
Alice Munro into Danish.
About the translator- Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of
numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl
Ove Knausgaard, Hanne rstavik, Peter H eg, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and
Pia Juul, and his translations of short stories and poetry have
appeared in many literary journals and magazines. In 2012 he was
awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen
Translation Prize.
“Jessen is a talented and empathetic writer (and kudos must be
given to translator Aitken, whose translation is supple and
luminous), and has imbued a quiet story about a woman finding
herself after her husband’s death with poignancy and stunning
humanity.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“An engaging, honest, and beautifully written look at love, loss,
and self-realization.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“In A Change of Time, Ida Jessen has crafted a masterpiece of the
epistolary novel told in diary entries. Each log is rich with
detail ... Here, one-liners—beautifully translated from the
Danish by Martin Aitken—are deeply felt.”
—Bookforum
“The text shines as an honest reckoning with the death of a
spouse—but one in a deeply companionless marriage—and the life of
two people who shared little but space ... Jessen, the Danish
translator of Marilynne Robinson, among others, proves to have
a keen Robinsonian streak of her own. She writes with the same
narrative generosity, the same belief in the dignity and voice of
characters that might usually be dismissed.”
—The Millions
“A Change of Time is a book of masterful restraint, and this
restraint is a kind of tenderness. It is a book that understands
that desire permeates everything - nothing human can be be cleansed
of it; and that sometimes love clings most inextricably to the
smallest places - misjudgment, invisibility, loneliness. It is a
book that deepens and dignifies both our innocence and our
fallibility.”
—Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces
“A masterful psychological portrait of an individual, who is set
free into a new era, after many years of great loneliness.”
—Jury of the Danish Writers Association's Blixen Award for A Change
of Time
“A successful portrait of a widow and her coming freedom. Ida
Jessen is sensible and solid in her historical novel A Change in
Time.”
—Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Politiken
“One rejoices at how clearly and precisely the book is
written.”
—Dagbladet Information
“Once again, Ida Jessen has succeeded in creating a small
masterpiece.”
—Weekendavisen
“Set in a rural Danish village in the early 20th century, A Change
of Time is a beautiful, quiet and reflective novel told through the
diary entries of a schoolteacher called Frau Bagge . . . The novel
charts her response to [her husband's] death and her attempts to
build herself a new life, find herself a new place and identity and
discover meaning in life again. An exquisitely written novel.”
—Radz Pandit, Rhadika's Reading Retreat
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