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From Kjell Askildsen comes a collection of spare, biting stories of people caught between reality and expectation, hope and despair, love and longing. A man and a woman in a quiet, remote house, an old man on a park bench, an estranged brother in a railway cafe -- Kjell Askildsen's characters are surrounded by absence. Filled with disquiet, and longing, they walk to a fjord, they smoke, they drink on a veranda, they listen to conversations that drift through open windows. Small flashes like the promise of a sunhat, a nail in a cherry tree, or a raised flag, reveal the interminable space between desire and reality in which Askildsen's characters are forever suspended. Widely recognized as one of the greatest modern short-story writers, with unadorned prose and a dark humor, Askildsen captures life as it really is, the worlds of his characters uncanny mirrors of our own.
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Everything Like Before, Kjell Askildsen
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Everything Like Before
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Kjell Askildsen
- Verlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0241508258
- ISBN13
- 9780241508251
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Gegenwartsliteratur, Klassiker, Kurzgeschichten, Nordische Literatur
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- From Kjell Askildsen comes a collection of spare, biting stories of people caught between reality and expectation, hope and despair, love and longing. A man and a woman in a quiet, remote house, an old man on a park bench, an estranged brother in a railway cafe -- Kjell Askildsen's characters are surrounded by absence. Filled with disquiet, and longing, they walk to a fjord, they smoke, they drink on a veranda, they listen to conversations that drift through open windows. Small flashes like the promise of a sunhat, a nail in a cherry tree, or a raised flag, reveal the interminable space between desire and reality in which Askildsen's characters are forever suspended. Widely recognized as one of the greatest modern short-story writers, with unadorned prose and a dark humor, Askildsen captures life as it really is, the worlds of his characters uncanny mirrors of our own.