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Knud Romer. Den som blinker er bange for doden. Copenhagen. Athene / Aschehoug 2006. 177 pages. 229 kr. ISBN 87-11-17106-5

FALSTER is Denmark's southernmost island, within easy ferry reach from Germany; and here, in 1960, our narrator Knud (Knudchen) was born in a town "so small it begins by ending. If you're in you can't get out--you go right through, and the only traces left are in your clothes, smelling of fertilizer in summer and sugar beets in winter."

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