Gunnhild Øyehaug
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"A new short story collection from international literary star Gunnhild Øyehaug"-- Provided by publisher.
"In this collection Øyehaug's short stories-- some one two pages long-- converse with, contradict, and expand upon one another. Her stories revolt against the ordinary, reaching instead for the wonder to be found in fantasy and absurdity."-- Adapted from jacket.
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"Expansive, intimate, and filled to the brim with delight, Gunnhild Oyehaug's first novel is devoted to the unexpected connections between lonesome individuals, mundane rituals, jellyfish, death, oversized men's shirts, and a thousand other things too astonishing to spoil in this sentence. I truly loved this wide-eyed, all-embracing wonder of a book." -Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
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Un hombre que nace con un cordón umbilical indestructible; Maurice Blanchot flotando río abajo; Julio Cortázar flotando río arriba; una familia que descubre con estupor que la abuela era una persona sexualmente activa; una librera que no puede dejar de leer todo lo que pasa en clave simbólica; extraterrestres que comen perritos calientes; un ciervo que se siente infeliz en el lindero de un bosque mientras espera que algún humano lo descubra...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2017.
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"A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway's most celebrated writers. First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug's radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love...