Karate Chop Kantslag Stories Dorthe Nors by Dorthe Nors 9781555970857, 1555970850 instant download after payment.

The first book in English by an acclaimed Danish writer: "beautiful, faceted, haunting stories . . . [from] a rising star" (Junot Díaz)

Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors's acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press & A Public Space. These 15 compact stories are meticulously observed glimpses of everyday life that expose the ominous lurking under the ordinary. While his wife sleeps, a husband prowls the Internet, obsessed with female serial killers; a bureaucrat tries to reinvent himself, exposing goodness as artifice when he converts to Buddhism in search of power; a woman sits on the edge of the bed where her lover lies, attempting to locate a motive for his violence within her own self-doubt. Shifting between moments of violence (real & imagined) & mundane contemporary life, these stories encompass the complexity of human emotions, our capacity for cruelty as...

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I’m the author of the novels “Soul” (2001), “Stormesteren” (2003) & “Ann Lie” (2005). 

It was short stories that paved the way for the international success. Karate Chop was published by Graywolf Press in 2014 & the American reviews were overwhelming. The stories from Karate Chop were translated one by one & appeared in American literary magazines from 2009 – 2012.

The two novellas Minna Needs Rehearsal Space & Days have been bought by Graywolf Press & was published in The United States June 2016 under the new title So Much for that Winter. Minna Needs Rehearsal Space is also bought by Pushkin Press, U.K., Cappelen Damm, Norway, Ordfront, Sweden, Strik, Serbia & Podium, The Netherlands.

I write both in Danish & in English (Danish for fiction, English for essays) & my essays have appeared on BBC Radio 4, in The Guardian, etc.