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.

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

Cutting and offbeat without ever losing its warmth, Wild Swims is a master class in concision and restraint, and a path to living life without either. With Wild Swims Nors’s star will continue to be ascendant. By Dorthe Nors. Buy Wild Swims: Stories by Dorthe Nors (ISBN: 9781782275503) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Wild Swims.

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Cutting and offbeat without ever losing its warmth, Wild Swims is a master class in concision and restraint, and a path to living life without either. With Wild Swims Nors’s star will continue to be ascendant. A Note From the Publisher In her latest collection of short stories, “Wild Swims,” the Danish writer Dorthe Nors puts to rest any notion that her compatriots are happier or more content than the rest of us. Indeed, the D orthe Nors’s Wild Swims is a small book in a literary market that skews big. Publishers and prize committees salivate over double-decker novels like Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire and Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport, and the conventional wisdom is that short stories and novellas don’t sell. Dorthe Nors (born 20 May 1970) is a Danish writer. She is the author of Soul, Karate Chop, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, and Wild Swims

2013 — Wild Swims. The Ephemeral Lightness of Being: Dorthe Nors's Wild Swims: Stories · A Country for Dying.

2021-03-05 · Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors, translated by Misha Hoekstra. reviewed by Gabriella Martin “You can always withdraw a little bit further,” reads the epigraph to Danish writer Dorthe Nors’s latest, exquisite collection of stories, Wild Swims, carefully translated into English by Misha Hoekstra.

But Wild Swims expands the borders of In Wild Swims, Nors’s latest collection of short fiction, ably translated from Danish by Misha Hoekstra, the elephant in the chair is the theme of human connection — its difficulties, its Cutting and offbeat without ever losing its warmth, Wild Swims is a master class in concision and restraint, and a path to living life without either. With Wild Swims Nors's star will continue to be ascendant. Dorthe Nors is one of the most original voices of contemporary Danish letters. She has written two lauded short story collections, Karate Chop and Wild Swims, as well as one novella and five novels, including the most recent: Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (2016), which was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2017.

2 Feb 2021 Wild Swims. Stories. Dorthe Nors, Misha Hoekstra (Translated by). Paperback. List Price: 15.00*. * Individual store prices may vary.

As he thinks back on his last conversations with his wife, Nors writes, still in present tense: “Her hands cupped over her knees, and he hasn’t seen her cry in years. 2021-02-08 · Dorthe Nors.

But I do write essays and articles in English. The translator of Wild Swims, Misha Hoekstra, is American—from the Chicago area, hey—and lives in Denmark. Wild Swims, by Dorthe Nors "Reading these stories at times feels almost like complicit voyeurism—witnessing pain through a one-way mirror in the laboratory of Nors’s world." Ellen Prentiss Campbell reviews Dorthe Nors's new collection, Wild Swims, out tomorrow from Graywolf. Dorthe Nors writes short fiction that is precise, brief and shattering. Her collection Karate Chop (2008) contains several stories running to less than Presented by The Center for Fiction via Zoom on February 3, 2021 with A Public Space and The Consulate General of Denmark in New York. A woman’s childhood memories of wild swimming draw her back to the water.
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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. In Wild Swims, Nors’s latest collection of short fiction, ably translated from Danish by Misha Hoekstra, the elephant in the chair is the theme of human connection — its difficulties, its Cutting and offbeat without ever losing its warmth, Wild Swims is a master class in concision and restraint, and a path to living life without either. With Wild Swims Nors's star will continue to be ascendant. Cutting and offbeat without ever losing its warmth, Wild Swims is a master class in concision and restraint, and a path to living life without either. With Wild Swims Nors’s star will continue to be ascendant. A Note From the Publisher An elderly man offers his body to aging women.