Author Nanna Holm talks about her debut novel Røde Port, a powerful story about friendship, longing and the ghosts of childhood. The book follows three childhood friends, Aske, Gry and Mona, who grow up in a commune meant as a haven of community and social awareness. As the ideals crack, the place becomes a setting of skewed relationships, lack of responsibility and boundary-crossing behaviour, and the three are left to live with the consequences of one fateful summer.
The conversation is led by librarian MarianneTräff and centres on being a child in the 1980s, on children forced to grow up too soon, on adults unable to let go of their own childhood, and on neglect, community and the marks that childhood leaves over a lifetime. It suits anyone interested in recent Danish literature.
