Lucie Elven

På en fjern bjergtop et sted i Europa, kun tilgængelig via en oldgammel kabelbane, er der et lille apotek på byens torv, som indbyggerne bruger som en slags skriftestol for alle deres bekymringer. En dag ankommer en ung kvinde til byen for at gå i lære hos den karismatiske, men udspekulerede apoteker August Malone. I takt med at apotekeren stiger i graderne til borgmester, opdager hun, at alt ikke er som det skal være. Britiske Lucie Elvens debutroman Et svagt punkt en fortælling om en længsel efter et publikum til de liv, vi lever, og svar på de spørgsmål, vi stiller. Om maskulinitet, manipulation og om den usynlige magt, der ender hos mennesker som ikke er blege for at udnytte andres sårbarheder.

The Weak Spot, the debut novel by Lucie Elven, is a fable about our longing for cures, answers, and an audience-and the ways it will be exploited by those who silently hold power in our world.

Enrique Vila-Matas, Olivia Sudjic, Jon Fosse, Inger Wold Lund, Vi Khi Nao, Patrícia Portela, Lucie Elven, Mara Coson, Christina Hesselholdt, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Naja Marie Aidt, Michael Salu, Joanna Walsh, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Anna Zett, Emilio Fraia, Frode Grytten, and Olga Ravn Translations by Margaret Jull Costa, Zoë Perry, Martin Aitken, Denise Newman, Paul Russell Garrett, Damion Searls, and Rahul Bery Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today. Meditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time. What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease – or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species’ trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light? The anthology takes its name from Steven Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays, and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology, and alternative education. By giving “access to tools”, a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined. Compiled, edited and with a foreword by Denise Rose Hansen.