New Review - Naja Marie Aidt - Bulbjerg (Best European Fiction 2010 Series)

Bulbjerg by Danish author Naja Marie Aidt is a short story from The Dalkey Archive Press publication, Best European Fiction 2010 (edited by Aleksandar Hemon). This review is part of a series intending to examine each story from the collection, in an effort to broaden awareness of both the project itself, and the excellent array of authors contained within.

Bulbjerg is a pleasant story that turns very dark very quickly. What initially appears a harmonious journey to the narrator's wife Anne's hometown of Bulbjerg soon becomes discordant, and it seems that, in a flash, a happy day turns sinister. Aidt skilfully shifts the story from a peaceful 'we' involving a small family, to a combative 'you' and 'I' experiencing the stark and rapid destruction of a marriage.

You can read the review here.

Other titles under review from the Best European Fiction 2010 anthology include:
---Belgium: Toussaint, Jean-Phillipe - Zidane's Melancholy
---Bosnian: Štiks, Igor - At the Sarajevo Market
---Bulgarian: Gospodinov, Georgi - And All Turned Moon
---Croatian: Ušumović, Neven – Vereš