Natalja's Stories
- Published: 4 December 2025
- ISBN: 9781837311132
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 96
A magnificent writer. I always hoped she would be given the Nobel Prize. When she died, I said: ‘Now they’ve let Inger die.’ I wouldn't have minded waiting. I could have received it later, or perhaps not at all
Herta Müller
Christensen’s probing, questioning, hopeful voice was an important one and is missed
Kirkus Reviews
Her luminous prose confirms what was already evident in the poems: that Christensen was one of the eminent visionaries of the twentieth century
Los Angeles Review of Books
Instead of a conventional story of suffering, loss and disaster, the book is a tantalizing, playful account of a character seizing the moment, leaving the past behind, and becoming someone else – a deconstruction of the usual take on the migrant’s fate as a tragic narrative
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She whispers to me in my own writing, a brilliant, fierce literary mother whom I will read and re-read again and again
Siri Hustvedt