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|title=How To Be Danish: From Lego to Lund. A Short Introduction to the State of Denmark

|author=Patrick Kingsley

|reviewer=Robert James

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-1780721330

|pages=192

|publisher=Short Books

|date=November 2012

|website=http://www.patrickkingsley.co.uk/

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First, the bad news. This slim volume won't actually tell you how to become a Danish person, despite the title. What it will do, though, is give you a new appreciation for the people of Denmark, and quite possibly make you want to jump on the first plane to Copenhagen to savour what is, according to the United Nations, the happiest country in the world.

As soon as I hear the word Denmark I think of Carsten Jensen's epic [[We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen|We, the Drowned]], one of the finest works of the literature of the past decade, for my money. If you'd rather stick with non-fiction and want to look at another fascinating country, I can also highly recommend [[Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne]].

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