Wild Swims Stories Dorthe Norse Misha Hoekstra Translation by Dorthe Norse, Misha Hoekstra (translation) instant download after payment.

“[Dorthe Nors] is a master of tracking the hits and misses of human connection. If she were a surgeon, she would cut with the cleanest of lines.”— Lit Hub

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A dazzling return to the short story by a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize

In fourteen effervescent stories, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy & 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, Minneapolis, & elsewhere.

Here are portraits of men & women full of restless longing, people who are often seeking a home but rarely finding it. A lie told during a fraught ferry ride on the North Sea becomes a wound that festers between school friends. A writer at a remote cabin befriends the mother of an ex-lover. Two friends knock doors to solicit fraudulent donations for the cancer society. A woman taken with the idea of wild swims ventures as far as the local swimming pool.

These stories have already been featured in the pages of the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Tin House, & A Public Space. They sound the darker tones of human nature & yet find the brighter chords of hope & humor as well. Cutting & offbeat without ever losing its warmth, Wild Swims is a master class in concision & restraint, a path to living life without either. With Wild Swims Nors’s star will continue to be ascendant.

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Dorthe Nors is the author of the story collections ​Wild Swims & Karate Chop; four novels, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize; & two novellas, collected in So Much for That Winter. She lives in Denmark.

www.dorthenors.dk