The Nordic industrial city of Ejersbo’s critically acclaimed novel Nordkraft has been exchanged for the hot, vast continent of Africa in the trilogy consisting of Exile, Revolution, and Liberty.

Rootless youth, clash between cultures, and self-destruction are important themes throughout the trilogy, where the two first volumes have received amazing reviews in the Danish press.

”Rather than referring to a single story, the collection’s title is a code, a collective symbol for the shocks and tremors suffered by these stories’ dreamchasers. Revolution shows Jakob Ejersbo as a tender, unromantic prose writer, in love with, and lost in, Africa, sensitive to the continent’s tales of destiny, humane and critical of the deposits of racism in our minds, and therefore a quite singular cultural crossbreed in Danish literature, kindred to the hybrid individuals of his tales in all their religious and cultural tapestries of habit, language and colour, a touch of Greenland, a smidgeon of Denmark, a pinch of Africa, a little black, a little white, a heap of alienation, for ever exiled …”
- Information on Revolution

“Reliving Ejersbo’s prose is a truly captivating experience. Despite the exotic backdrop, he never for a second resorts to frolicking in magical realism or other literary forms of playing for the gods. He maintains a vice-like grip on his spare, naked tone in this alarming story of the harm that can be done to a child and a continent.”
-Berlingske Tidende on Exile

Now all there is left to do is to wait eagerly for the third volume Liberty, which will round off the trilogy in November 2009.