5 Top danish books like Ordet by Kaj Munk

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Ordet

By: Kaj Munk

4.11

Format: None pages, None

¿Qué tienen en común un dramaturgo y un cineasta daneses de mediados del siglo XX? La palabra, Orde…

If you liked the danish plot in Ordet by Kaj Munk , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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2. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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3. Fiskerne

By: Hans Kirk

3.82

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Historien om et mindre indre missionsk samfund i en jysk fiskeby. read more

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4. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

5. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

By: Ray Lawler

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ray LawlerCharacters:3 male, 4 female Interior Set This compelling Australian play was a success in… read more

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6. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran

By: Shahrnush Parsipur , Kamran Talattof , Jocelyn Sharlet , None

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Menin her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was a… read more

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7. A Grief Observed

By: C.S. Lewis

4.22

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 … read more

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"Time itself is one more name for death."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"The death of a beloved is an amputation."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

-C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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8. Tour de chambre

By: Tine Høeg

4.19

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Tour de chambre er en roman om venskab, forelskelse og død – og om begæret efter at skrive og skabe… read more

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9. Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more

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"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

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10. Meter i sekundet

By: Stine Pilgaard

3.78

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Et ungt par bosætter sig på en højskole i Vestjylland med deres lille barn. De træder ind i en verd… read more

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"Kanske är det för att jag är ensambarn, men jag blir alltid förvirrad när jag inte möts av jubel vart jag än kommer"

-Stine Pilgaard, Meter i sekundet

"Det gäller att ha is i magen, säger Anders Agger, om man är tyst tillräckligt länge kommer de till sist att börja prata"

-Stine Pilgaard, Meter i sekundet

"Jag säger inte att jag är oskyldig. I likhet med de flesta senmoderna människor är jag bara en bra vän när jag har långtråkigt eller har behov av andra"

-Stine Pilgaard, Meter i sekundet

"När man inte kan överblicka saker och ting är det viktigt att inte bry sig om framtiden. Släpp de stora dragen och ta en minut i taget [...] Gör allt så enkelt och kortsiktigt som möjligt, tänk inte …"

-Stine Pilgaard, Meter i sekundet

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11. Utilstrækkelig

By: Christian Hjortkjær

4.27

Format: 120 pages, None

Hvorfor den nye moral gør de unge psykisk syge read more

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12. Ordet

By: Kaj Munk

4.11

Format: None pages, None

¿Qué tienen en común un dramaturgo y un cineasta daneses de mediados del siglo XX? La palabra, Orde… read more

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13 must-read fiction books like Meter i sekundet by Stine Pilgaard

Transform Your Habits

Nye rejsende

Tine Høeg

3.85

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Tine Høeg

4.19

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Nøjsomheden

Stine Askov

4.31

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Thomas Korsgaard

4.31

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