There but for the Angstens gave er et essay

Angstens gave er et essay om angst og litteratur

drømme og depraveret kærlighed – i samtiden radikale temaer – bidrog de blandt andre til en ændring i opfattelsen af kønsroller og seksualitet

she begins to hope for a new future

From Kyoto’s suburban mask-makers to the swordsmiths of Kanazawa

There but for the Angstens gave er et essayThere once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party . . .' As time passes by and the consequences of this stranger's actions ripple outwards, touching the owners, the guests, the neighbours and the whole country, so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful, strange place where everyone is so much more