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Violence
Barely any
Mild; the death of the horse and some violence in the modern sections
Language
None
No strong language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Mild; the philosophical weight of seeing the present through deep geological time
What this book is about
Peter Adolphsen's experimental short novel traces the journey of a prehistoric horse from its death fifty million years ago — through fossilization, the long slow transformation into oil, extraction, refinement, and final combustion — as a meditation on time, entropy, and the invisible connections between the ancient past and the industrial present. A formally inventive work of Danish literature in translation.
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