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The Injury : ten stories / Anna Enquist, translated by Jeanette K. Ringold.
LIBRA - Special PT5881.15.N68 K8413 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Enquist, Anna
- Standardized Title:
- Kwetsuur. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enquist, Anna--Translations into English.
- Enquist, Anna.
- Manners and customs.
- Netherlands--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Netherlands.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 244 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Connecticut : Toby Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Summary:
- "The Injury brings together ten of Anna Enquist's best short stories. A dramatic rescue in the North Sea in the 1840s. A school soccer match as a symbol of struggle. A devastating injury. A figure in a painting by Vermeer. For the many thousands of readers of "The Masterpiece and "The Secret, this will be a rewarding collection, demonstrating the breadth of Enquist's imagination. For those new to Anna Enquist's work, there can be no better introduction to one of Europe's finest contemporary writers than "The Injury. First published in 1999 under the original title "De Kwetsuur, the work has been translated by Jeannette K. Ringold.
- Contents:
- The crossing 1
- Hunger 21
- Greek soccer 41
- Sweets 61
- 'Where a lord washes his hands' 75
- The injury 125
- The cost of cooking 145
- The man who loved disappointments 189
- The finals 199
- A harbour 223.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Dutch as De kwetsuur: tien verhalen copyright Utgeverij de Arbeiderspers, 1999"--T.p. verso.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Enquist, Anna. Kwetsuur. English. Injury.
- ISBN:
- 1902881230
- 9781902881232
- 1902881222
- 9781902881225
- OCLC:
- 47170937
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