Gunnhild Øyehaug
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"A new short story collection from international literary star Gunnhild Øyehaug"--
"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."--
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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...
3) Nudos
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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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In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Gunnhild Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud's thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the quietly morbid and the delightfully comical. A young man is born with an uncuttable umbilical cord and spends...
7) Wait, Blink
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Full of the playfulness that drew acclaim for her story collection Knots, Gunnhild Øyehaug's first novel to be translated into English is a jolt of desire and imagination, romance and regret: a fable about what it means to own up to the intractable weirdness of being alive. Sigrid is a young literature student trying to find her own voice, but when she falls in love with an older, established author, she finds herself overwhelmed by his ideas and...