Its Getting Dark Stories Peter Stamm by Peter Stamm 9781635420302, 163542030X, B08Y8CJCRH instant download after payment.

Georg is on the verge of retirement. No one notices him anymore at the office, and there is no dinner waiting for him at home. He seems to dissolve slowly and a nameless horror seizes him. Sabrina is flattered when an artist approaches her. But when she sees herself as a work of art for the first time, she shudders. David wants to rob a bank. He already has a mask for the purpose, but he won't be using it today. He's heard that bank robbers often study the scene for weeks before they strike. So he's started to lurk.

"Stamm creates ordinary characters who become the lead actors in extraordinary situations as they follow their instincts. He creates tension with simple sentences and language - sometimes quiet, perhaps menacing - then follows the characters and uses barebone frameworks to show what is happening. We may or may not see ourselves in these stories, but through his fiction, we identify the choices we are given day by day. We can only imagine what might happen if we say yes."  -  Jane Krebs, Bookreporter

We think we know our world, but then the familiar suddenly turns strange, and even frightening. In these powerfully affecting, minutely constructed stories, Peter Stamm illustrates how fragile our reality really is, how susceptible to tricks of the heart and mind.