Der vokser et landskab frem. Tiden bliver langsom. De sidder på verandaen i hver sin gyngestol og ser himlen sortne ... Lone star er en roman om familie og tilhørsforhold og om at overvinde enorme afstande.

Lone Star is about distances: the miles between a father and daughter; the detachment between Mathilde’s Danish upbringing and her American family; the separation of language; and the passage of time between Mathilde’s adulthood and the ...

Entwined with this series of events is the personal problem of saving the young lieutenants life.

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