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Wild Swims

โœ Scribed by Dorthe Nors

Book ID
115195848
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Year
2020
Tongue
English
Weight
98 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781782275510

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โœฆ Synopsis

A hauntingly insightful new short story collection from the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted authorThis is a collection resplendent with longing. In these pages, people meet without actually connecting, travellers set off but never seem to find home. We encounter them on the fjords of Norway, in the bustle of Los Angeles, and among the lights of Copenhagen. Outsiders yearn to be on the inside, insiders are desperate to be free. A writer befriends an ex-lover's mother. An elderly man offers his body to aging women. A woman's childhood memories of wild swimming draw her back to the water.In prose that is both elegantly spare and saturated with emotion, Dorthe Nors shines a light into forgotten corners and conjures darkness where it's least expected. Her characteristic sharpness and sense of humour are ever-present, catching us when the melancholy threatens to come too close. Love, cruelty, friendship and loneliness are all here, in these stories that brim with...

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