My Work by Olga Ravn

From the acclaimed author of The Employees, a
radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about
motherhood

After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new
mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes
she can’t afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces
herself to read and write.
My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of
giving birth, mixing different literary forms—fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and
letters—to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality,
and literature.
“Olga Ravn writes dazzlingly about the work of motherhood and the work of
writing. Reading Ravn’s book, you run through the whole gamut of human emotion, as though you too were a new mother: tears, laughter, anger, fear, pain,
frustration. This is powerful writing that’s hard to put down.” —POLITIKEN
Praise for The Employees:
“This clever, endlessly thought-provoking novel catches something of our recursive search for the nature of consciousness; a question that answers itself,
a voice in the darkness, an object moving through space.”
—JUSTINE JORDAN, THE GUARDIAN
“Beautiful, sinister, gripping.” —MARK HADDON
“Everything I’m looking for in a novel. I was obsessed from the first page to the
last. A strange, beautiful, deeply intelligent and provocative investigation into
humanity.” —MAX PORTER

OLGA RAVN (born 1986) is a Danish novelist and poet. In collaboration with the
Danish publisher Gyldendal she edited a selection of Tove Ditlevsen’s writings that
relaunched Ditlevsen readership worldwide. Her novel The Employees was shortlisted
for the 2021 International Booker Prize. SOPHIA HERSI SMITH and JENNIFER
RUSSELL are translators living in Copenhagen. Together, they have translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Tove Ditlevsen, Marianne Larsen, and Rakel
Haslund-Gjerrild.

PBK NDP 1571
FICTION SEPTEMBER
5 X 8" 416pp
ISBN 978-0-8112-3471-9
EBK 978-0-8112-3472-6
24 CQ TERRITORY B
US $18.95