Hurricane Season and Silence Orkansæsonen og stilheden by Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky When Beate wakes up in the morning, she turns towards the empty space in bed beside her, slowly remembering that Thomas is really dead. Her sense of loss floods back, hitting her so hard that she’s almost pinned to the mattress. She pulls herself together before she goes into the office and focuses on her job as a defence lawyer. Her close friend Monica is a rather unusual priest, outspoken and with a no-nonsense approach to the parishioners who seek her advice. Monica travels to Guatemala, where she meets a mafioso, a Guatemalan teenage girl who grew up in a children’s home, and a young pot dealer whom Beate also encounters in her capacity as a lawyer. The book follows the two women as they weave in and out of people’s lives, grappling with issues of faith, justice, vigilantism, sorrow, infatuation, forgiveness of murder and – greatest of all – love. Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky was born in 1974 and graduated from Copenhagen’s Writer’s School in 1998. Having completed her Foreign Language Officer training in Moscow in 2003, she worked at, the Danish Embassy in Russia, before going to Afghanistan in 2007, first as a soldier and then as a Foreign Ministry advisor. In 2010 she was awarded the Anders Lassen Award for “significant military and civilian achievements during SPECIFICATIONS Pages: 346 deployment ”. Publication Date: 06. januar 2016 Rights sold to Her first book was The Women’s War (Kvindernes krig) in 2010, which was a FRANCE / Gaïa documentary about her work with the Afghan women. The book was shortlisted NORWAY / Font Forlag for Weekendavisen’s Literature Prize. In 2012 she published her first novel, The Stolen Road (Den stjålne vej) for which she was awarded the Debutant More than 33,000 copies sold in Award. This was also nominated for Weekendavisens Literature Prize as well Denmark. as for the DBC’s Novel of the Year Award. Slaughtered Pigs (Forbandede PLEASE CONTACT yngel) was published in 2013 and earned her the Golden Laurels and Rudi Urban Rasmussen Politiken’s Novel of the Year Award. Literary Agent [email protected] Tel. +45 20 89 31 88 Copyright © 2021 Politikens Literary Agency, All rights reserved. Reviews Wide-ranging, intelligent and deeply satisfying ... a Danish novel that grapples our basic existence constructively and intelligently. As it also offers the kind of reading experience that captures the reader completely into an immersive reading experience, this critic will award it with maximum grades. - Jyllands-Posten A narrator of the greatest sort. Totally elegantly and effortlessly she weaves a riveting story together over a very varied gallery ... Thank you for reading experience. - Alt For Damerne A subtle page turner that embraces both the human side as well as the pompous. Bound together by faith, hope and love, without preaching, although Riebnitzsky is something as rare as a contemporary writer with a moral. - Ekstra Bladet It is an excellently composed novel. It is beautifully polyphonic and like nothing you have read before. - Kristeligt Dagblad Byzantine and vibrant, light and playful. A feel-good novel with meaning. A strangely quiet literary cyclone. - Berlingske Tidende There are plenty of discussion material in Riebnitzsky’s novel which narrative plot is that you are responsible for your own life. - Politiken A distinctive feature is Riebnitzsky’s benevolent view on people she writes about ... stories about " Monika the Hurricane" and the people she touches on her way, both gifted and empathetic. - Børsen As you can see, this is such a novel, one never thought anyone would write again, with all the qualities that characterize the classic, great novel tradition. If Riebnitzsky wrote on a more widely used language than Danish, this book would make her a major celebrity. We really do hope that this convincing essay, will go far beyond this country’s borders (...) It is great art. - Weekendavisen Copyright © 2021 Politikens Literary Agency, All rights reserved. .