Wild swims : stories / Dorthe Nors ; Translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nors, Dorthe, 1970- author.

Contributor:

Hoekstra, Misha, translator.

Standardized Title:

Kort over Canada. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Danish.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

124 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Danish.

Summary:

"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 pool."--Amazon.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: In a Deer Stand

Sun Dogs

Hygge

By Sydvest Station

Between Offices

The Fairground

Compaction Birds

Pershing Square

Honeysuckle

On Narrow Paved Paths

Inside St. Paul's

The Freezer Chest

Manitoba.

Notes:

"Wild Swims was first published as Kort Over Canada by Gyldendal in Denmark, 2018."--Title page verso.

"FIrst published in English by Pushkin Press in 2020."--Title page verso.

ISBN:

1644450437

9781644450437

OCLC:

1153459279