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Money to Burn
Asta Olivia Nordenhof
  • Published: 16 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529934519
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

Money to Burn

  • Asta Olivia Nordenhof



An award-winning and dazzling Danish novel, the first in the groundbreaking Scandinavian Star series, that explores love, betrayal and capitalism – for readers of Deborah Levy and Tove Ditlevsen

Is it possible to love under capitalism?

Maggie and Kurt are a couple struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in a old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together.

Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing hundreds of people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was revealed not to be an accident, but the result of an insurance scam gone wrong.

How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt's relationship? How does money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape? Money to Burn is both a dazzling work of fiction and a true-crime investigation into the unshakeable hold of money, greed and desire on us all.

  • Published: 16 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529934519
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

Praise for Money to Burn

Nordenhof’s first novel isn’t like others. That’s one of the reasons why Money to Burn sets the bar so unbelievably high for the coming volumes of what can already be dubbed the most ambitious literary project of the 2020s

Jyllands-Posten

How do you write a social-realistic, political novel about capitalism in the 21st century? This is how you do it!

Politiken

Unbelievably good. I can’t think of anyone apart from Kristen Thorup, who in the last decades has written so compassionately and vividly and at the same time so unsentimental about people on the fringes of the wealthy lives of the welfare state

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Money to Burn signals the start of a new masterpiece of Nordic literature

Dag og Tid

Money to Burn signals the start of a new masterpiece of Nordic literature

Dag og Tid

How do you write a social-realistic, political novel about capitalism in the 21st century? This is how you do it!

Politiken

Nordenhof’s first novel isn’t like others. That’s one of the reasons why Money to Burn sets the bar so unbelievably high for the coming volumes of what can already be dubbed the most ambitious literary project of the 2020s

Jyllands-Posten
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