Cut Line

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**Cultural Endowment of Estonia 2020, Poetry Award**

**Tartu City Writer Laureate, 2020**

**August Sang Poetry 2020, Translation Award**

In the dog days of an Estonian summer, Liine flees to the countryside to put a conclusive end to her toxic 14-year relationship.

She undergoes every stage of separation in a lone farmstead amid forests. Physical labor and gardening help her withstand her ex-partner's threats, the incredulity of friends and family, and her own anguish. Dread is pervasive in this novel. Set in the near future, it is filled with vivid depictions of the threat of climate change. All around Liine, nature is facing acute drought and heat. No less menacing is the presence of an expanding NATO base close to the cottage at the Russian border. The world's largest military alliance is practicing for an attack. Explosions and shots ring in the distance while Liine tries to recover from fourteen years of violence. Yet she simply follows the rhythm of nature as summer unfolds. While her environment changes around her, Liine always in the garden chopping wood, weeding, sowing undergoes profound transformations, too. The Cut Line is a story of fear, self-blame, grief, numbness, and anger ultimately giving way to hope and healing, joy and lightness.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781642861617
Published: March 2026

Number of pages: 118
Width: 127 mm
Height: 203 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: World Editions