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Money to Burn
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  • Published: 16 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529934519
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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Money to Burn

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2 June 2026
EBook
16 Jan 2025
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16 Jan 2025
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An award-winning and dazzling Danish novel, the first in the groundbreaking Scandinavian Star series, that explores love, betrayal and capitalism – for readers of Deborah Levy and Tove Ditlevsen

In the aftermath of a national disaster, a couple look back on their marriage and what it cost them in this groundbreaking novel about capitalism’s effect on the human heart

*Guardian best translated fiction of 2025*

'Buzzes with electricity… intriguing, maddening, exciting. I’m in’ Observer

'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' Guardian

Maggie and Kurt are struggling to hold their marriage together after their only daughter has left home. They live in an old farmhouse in Nyborg but somehow keep missing each other, unable to discuss the events that brought them together.

Decades ago, a passenger ferry called the Scandinavian Star caught fire, killing 159 people. The event is still considered a national tragedy in Denmark and Norway. Years later, it was revealed not to be an accident, but the result of an insurance scam gone wrong.

How is the Scandinavian Star disaster connected to Maggie and Kurt? How does money affect and infect our closest relationships? And is it ever possible to escape?

'Taut and intelligent… a moving love story and an incendiary indictment of contemporary society' Literary Review

‘A comet in Scandinavian literature’ OLGA RAVN

‘Startling and irresistible’ CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT

'Unusual, fascinating, and complicated in the best way' CLAIRE FULLER

'Nordenhof's writing is electrifying' CHETNA MAROO
  • Published: 16 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529934519
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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Praise for Money to Burn

Money to Burn signals the start of a new masterpiece of Nordic literature

Dag og Tid

How do you write a social-realistic, political novel about capitalism in the 21st century? This is how you do it!

Politiken

Nordenhof’s first novel isn’t like others. That’s one of the reasons why Money to Burn sets the bar so unbelievably high for the coming volumes of what can already be dubbed the most ambitious literary project of the 2020s

Jyllands-Posten