Money to Burn

Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Caroline Waight

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JONATHAN CAPE
13 May 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Fiction in translation; Corporate crime; Ships & shipping: general interest

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

A groundbreaking, profound and intimate novel about capitalism's effects on the human heart- Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series, a new masterpiece of Danish literature

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

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

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?

'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

By: Asta Olivia Nordenhof
Translated by: Caroline Waight
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 237g
ISBN: 9781787335165
ISBN 10: 178733516X
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 13 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Asta Olivia Nordenhof (Author) Asta Olivia Nordenhof is an award-winning poet and author. Money to Burn was first published in Denmark in 2020 and went on to win the European Union Prize for Literature and the PO Enquist Prize, and to be shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Its publication caused a sensation internationally and it is set to be published in sixteen languages. The second book in the series, The Devil Book, was an instant bestseller in Denmark. Caroline Waight (Translator) Caroline Waight is an award-winning literary translator working from Danish, German and Norwegian. Her translations include books by Caroline Albertine Minor, Ingvild Rish i, Maren Uthaug and Dorthe Nors. She was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Award and received a special commendation at the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

Reviews for Money to Burn

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 * How do you write a social-realistic, political novel about capitalism in the 21st century? This is how you do it! * Politiken * Unbelievably good. I can’t think of anyone apart from Kristen Thorup, who in the last decades has written so compassionately and vividly and at the same time so unsentimental about people on the fringes of the wealthy lives of the welfare state * Information * Money to Burn signals the start of a new masterpiece of Nordic literature * Dag og Tid *