Alpha Forlag publishes Laura Ringo’s newest novel in Denmark!

Laura Ringo

Set on Falster island, the story follows optician’s assistant Nelly, whose quietly ordered life is thrown into turmoil when her boyfriend Troels receives a bowel-cancer diagnosis. Blending mordant humour with deep emotional acuity, Ringo delivers a tragicomic exploration of love, loss and the lengths we go to protect the fragile “we” we build with another person. 

With After Brief Illness, Ringo—winner of the Blixen Prize for Paper Wedding and one of Denmark’s most exciting voices—offers her most heartfelt adult novel to date, exposing the oddities of the optical trade, the havoc of serious illness and the resilience that emerges in its wake.