OMA BOOKS

A translator from Jutland learns to drive, and to live, in Copenhagen.

A sidelined Copenhagen detective reopens the case of a vanished politician.

1920s: a Copenhagen painter becomes Lili Elbe, a pioneer of gender transition.

1941: Heisenberg visits Bohr in occupied Copenhagen. What did they say?

A boy falls from a Copenhagen roof; Smilla reads his tracks in the snow.

1920s: a working-class girl grows up in Vesterbro, dreaming of being a poet.

1848–1945: the sailors of Marstal, a small Danish port, and the women they leave behind.