Fiction. Translated from the Danish by Tara Chace. Taking its title from Kurt Schwitter's fanatical love poem "To Anna Blume," BELOVED OF MY TWENTY-SEVEN SENSES depicts a sensory realm so advanced that our mere six senses simply aren't enough to truly perceive the world. At the age of 71, geologist Clemens Carlsen has set out into the Libyan Desert. His wife Anna hasgone after him. No one knows where they are or why they're there. A search party has been sent to look for them. In a hotelin a desert town in Egypt, their son Tore is waiting. As he sifts through his parents' old journals, photographs, and scientific notes, their lives unfold before him; he discovers where they are and why. Karen Fastrup was born in 1967 and lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She made her authorial debut in 2000 with the novel Bronden (The Well).

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Karen Fastrup was born in 1967 and lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She made her authorial debut in 2000 with the novel Br.