Blue Sunset

Synopsis

At a conference somewhere in Europe, Maja meets the Author. Haunted by a recent tragedy, she leaves with him unexpectedly for his home on the Italian coast, where she slips into the rhythms of his life and observes the world through the lens of his days. Yet their new and tender intimacy is shadowed by the knowledge that Maja must eventually return to Copenhagen, the site of her devastating loss.

With echoes of Virginia Woolf and Ann Quin, Denise Rose Hansen writes with spare, precise lyricism about grief, desire, and the strange passage between one life and the next. Blue Sunset is a slim, atmospheric novel about mourning, yearning, and the possibility of beginning again.

About the Author

Denise Rose Hansen is a Danish writer and editor who lives in London. She is the founder of Lolli Editions and is now an editor at Penguin, where she publishes writers including Shahrnush Parsipur, Ágota Kristóf, and Anne Serre. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Ache, ATLAS, and elsewhere.

Publisher

Dorothy, a publishing project

Publication Date

October 6, 2026

Format

Paperback

Pages

120

Subjects

Love & Other Disasters · Literary Fiction · Grief & Loss · Desire · Fiction in Translation

ISBN

9781948980333