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Wild Swims

✍ Scribed by Dorthe Nors

Book ID: 100571370
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 222 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781644450437

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✦ Synopsis

**A dazzling return to the short story by a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize
** In fourteen effervescent stories, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy and everything in between. Just as she did in her English-language debut, Karate Chop , Nors slices straight to the core of the conflict in only a few pages. But Wild Swims expands the borders of her gaze, following people as they travel through Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and elsewhere.
Here are portraits of men and women full of restless longing, people who are often seeking a home but rarely finding it. A lie told during a fraught ferry ride on the North Sea becomes a wound that festers between school friends. A writer at a remote cabin befriends the mother of an ex-lover. Two friends knock doors to solicit fraudulent donations for the cancer society. A woman taken with the idea of wild swims ventures as far as the local swimming...

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