Everything Like Before: Stories

by Askildsen, Kjell
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ISBN: 9781939810946
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From one of the greatest Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, 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 caf -- 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.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Askildsen, Kjell
  • ISBN: 9781939810946
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 6.80 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 275
  • Publication Year: 2021

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