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A Girl From Copenhagen

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Author : Glenn Peterson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019

A Girl From Copenhagen written by Glenn Peterson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.

The Girl From Copenhagen

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Author : Glenn Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2018-12-05

The Girl From Copenhagen written by Glenn Peterson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The Girl from Copenhagen is a memoir. It includes a photo section that follows my mother’s life from childhood into old age. Born in Denmark in 1923 on the island of Falster (“amid thunder and lightning,” as she was fond of saying), Inge Buus had an idyllic life, growing up with her brother and sister on their father’s farm. All three siblings learned to ride a horse by the age of eight or nine. Inge, however, was anything but a farm girl. She never mastered the art of milking a cow. She refused to drink milk. During the fall slaughtering time, she would stay in her room and close the door so she would not hear the squealing of the fattened pigs. She avoided gathering eggs because the hens would peck her fingers. After graduating at the top of her high school class, she moved to Copenhagen to study nursing. Unfortunately, her nursing career was cut short when her ankles began swelling up on her long shifts, rendering her as infirm as some of her patients. She subsequently found employment as a bookkeeper at Burmeister & Wain, the largest shipbuilder in Denmark. Inge and her family witnessed the German invasion of Denmark on April 9, 1940. At first, the occupation did not seem all that bad. The Danish economy, in a recession at the time, prospered with the German wartime demand for produce and machinery. But then the Nazis began to tighten the screws, revealing their true intentions as they attempted to round up and deport Denmark’s Jewish population to concentration camps. This was the last straw for the Danish people, who considered their Jewish neighbors as Danes first and Jews second and succeeded in smuggling most of Denmark’s eight thousand Jews to neutral Sweden on a flotilla of small fishing boats. After this blatant act of defiance, Hitler ordered a crackdown on his Danish “protectorate.” On her way to work, Inge would pass by German tanks stationed in Copenhagen’s town square. Helmeted German soldiers armed with machine guns demanded to see her Ausweis. There were almost daily bombings in the heart of the city—some conducted by the Danish Resistance, others conducted by the Germans in retaliation. Inge had mixed feelings about working in the shipyard, which was producing engines for German U-boats, making the yard a target for allied bombers as well as the Danish Resistance. But the pay was much higher than she would be able to obtain elsewhere, so she chose to stick it out. In 1965, with the house completed to Bob’s satisfaction, he grew restless and set his sights on greener pastures. Over the next twenty-five years, there would be a total of seven more moves—some dictated by the necessities of employment opportunities, others simply places where Bob had aspired from his youth to settle down in. (“A house is just a place to hang your hat,” Bob once said.) Inge never uttered a word of complaint during all these moves. No doubt, like her husband, she had the spirit of wanderlust in her blood––after all, she had gone off to America with a man she had known for no more than a week. During these many moves, Inge made a total of twenty-five trips back to her native Denmark. The love of her life collapsed and died shortly after moving into their new home in Pennsylvania. “We’re staying here,” Bob promised a few days before his sudden death. “No more moves.” Living with her son, Glenn, Inge would make two more trips to Denmark after Bob’s death. She would outlive almost all her contemporaries, dying of dementia at the age of ninety-four.

A Girl From Copenhagen

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Author : Ruskin Bond
language : en
Publisher: [New Delhi] : India Paperbacks
Release Date : 1977

A Girl From Copenhagen written by Ruskin Bond and has been published by [New Delhi] : India Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Short stories, English categories.

The Girl From Copenhagen

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Author : Glenn Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2019-10-18

In this book I continue the story of my late mother’s life, tying up some loose ends and filling in inadvertent gaps in the narrative. Memories are fickle and evanescent, often no more substantial than last night’s dream. They cannot be summoned up at will to reveal themselves and often require a period of incubation before to begin to coalesce. As was the case in The Girl From Copenhagen, I have in this sequel used pictures in my mother’s photo albums to rekindle half-forgotten memories. I was surprised when I wrote this book by how many significant events in my mother’s life that I had failed to record. But such is the nature of memory.

The Danish Girl

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Author : David Ebershoff
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-05-28

The Danish Girl written by David Ebershoff and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-28 with Fiction categories.

The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper. Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. The Danish Girl is an evocative and deeply moving novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century.

The Girl From Copenhagen

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Author : Kylie Jensen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-06-15

The Girl From Copenhagen written by Kylie Jensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-15 with Fiction categories.

The Danish Girl

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Author : David Ebershoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

The Danish Girl written by David Ebershoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Copenhagen (Denmark) categories.

A shockingly original novel based on the true story of the first first man to undergo a sex-change operation and the woman who loves him. One of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century, it is currently being made into a feature film starring Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron. Set against the glitz and decadence of 1920s Copenhagen, Paris and Dresden, and inspired by a true story, The Danish Girl is about one of the most passionate and unusual marriages of the twentieth century. Einar Wegener and his American wife Greta Waud have been married for six years, but are yet to have a child. Both painters, they live a life of bohemian languor in Copenhagen until one day their lives are irreversibly altered. The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the intimacy that defines a marriage and the nearly forgotten story of the love between a man who discovers that he is, in fact, a woman, and his wife who would sacrifice anything for him. This elegantly written, sensual and engrossing novel is a wonderful celebration of love. With great sensitivity and intelligence, David Ebershoff tells the story of this extraordinary marriage, which survives the hardest test any couple could face. Praise for The Danish Girl: 'an engrossing story of true love, suffering and sacrifice' - Sunday Telegraph. 'A quality of extraordinariness. . . an astonishing idea, rendered arrestingly: a hypnotising uniqueness' - Courier-Mail. 'An enthralling read' - The Times. 'An unusual and affecting love story' - New York Times.

This Girl Loves Copenhagen

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Author : Hometown Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-03

This Girl Loves Copenhagen written by Hometown Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with categories.

Show love for your hometown! This beautiful city is your home. Here you were born and raised. On 120 empty pages you can write down a lot. Take this journal with you on your next trip. Since your birth you love this city. The perfect gift for your mom, daughter, sister, aunt, niece or grandma. This girl loves her city! Remember your city after your next move and write down what you love about the city. Get this notebook now!

Childhood

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Author : Tove Ditlevsen
language : en
Publisher: FSG Originals
Release Date : 2021-01-26

Childhood written by Tove Ditlevsen and has been published by FSG Originals this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The celebrated Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen begins the Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" —The Guardian) with Childhood, her coming-of-age memoir about pursuing a life and a passion beyond the confines of her upbringing—and into the difficult years described in Youth and Dependency Tove knows she is a misfit whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For "long, mysterious words begin to crawl across" her soul, and she comes to realize that she has a vocation, something unknowable within her—and that she must one day, painfully but inevitably, leave the narrow street of her childhood behind. Childhood, the first volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy, is a visceral portrait of girlhood and female friendship, told with lyricism and vivid intensity.

This Girl Loves Copenhagen

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Author : City Love Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-15

This Girl Loves Copenhagen written by City Love Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-15 with categories.

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