Summary
Kaspar Colling Nielsen: European Spring
The culmination of the migrant crisis in Denmark leads to radical segregation - Muslims live in immigration zones under strict control, and the Danish government deports hundreds of thousands of undesirables to a refugee city built in Mozambique. On the other hand, the island of Loland has been transformed into an idyllic and strictly guarded haven, technologically advanced and ecologically sustainable, where members of the elite enjoy an artificially enhanced nature.
Middle-aged gallerist Stig, who longs for the recognition of the art community, his wife Elisabeth, a scientist shaken by her daughter's anorexia, and Christian, an artist whose sexual urges enter the realm of the illegal, move to Loland and their lives change fundamentally.
Set into a future that seems disturbingly close, The European Spring is a provocative mix of satirical social criticism and dystopia, a novel that raises questions of freedom, equality, the ethics of technology and the commercialization of art. The future that Koling Nielsen imagines is simultaneously decadent, dark and alluring.
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