Niviaq Korneliussen

La Vallée des Fleurs

Flower Valley

January 20, 2022
Novel
384 pages
128 × 190 mm
21 €
9782925141105
978-2-9251-4110-5
Translated from the Danish by Inès Jorgensen

“Littérature étrangère” collection

																Niviaq Korneliussen, La Vallée des Fleurs
																Niviaq Korneliussen, La Vallée des Fleurs

Flower Valley is located in eastern Greenland, near the town of Tasiilaq. Pink, red and blue plastic flowers grow on the graves of the cemetery. A young woman goes there following a tragic event that has affected her in-laws. She is in love, a student, promised to the future, and yet something in her breaks in front of the majesty of the mountains. Her daily life as a Greenlandic woman trying to integrate into Danish society will accelerate, following a tightrope between darkness and bright light. She who as a child had jumped out of a window to fly away will try to regain her lost freedom at all costs.

After the international success of Homo sapienne, Niviaq Korneliussen returns with a masterpiece of hypersensitivity, humor and poetry in which she tackles head-on the difficult subject of the suicide epidemics that affect Greenland.

The author

Born in 1990, Niviaq Korneliussen grew up in Nanortalik, South Greenland. Her first novel Homo sapienne was a turning point in Greenlandic literary history. Naasuliardarpi is currently a finalist for the Nordic Council Grand Prize for Literature.

January 20, 2022
Novel
384 pages
128 × 190 mm
21 €
9782925141105
978-2-9251-4110-5
Translated from the Danish by Inès Jorgensen

“Littérature étrangère” collection