Translated from Swedish by Henning KochPublished by Washington Square Press, 2014, 320 pages. Original version published in 2012. “Ove is fifty-nine. He drives a Saab. He’s the kind of man who points at people he doesn’t like the look of, as if they were burglars and his finger a policeman’s flashlight.” When we meet him, …
Month: January 2020
A Haunted House and Other Stories: Virginia Woolf
Published by Vintage, 1944, 336 pages. I haven’t read Virginia Woolf for decades, and I had forgotten just how well she writes. I had bought this collection of her short stories in the 1980s, and it was one of the many books I had left behind in my parents’ house when I moved. It has …
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Go, Went, Gone: Jenny Erpenbeck
Translated from German by Susan BernofskyPublished by Portobello Books, 2017, 304 pages. Original version published in 2015. “War destroys everything…your family, your friends, the place where you lived, your work, your life. When you become foreign…you don’t have a choice. You don’t know where to go. You don’t know anything. I can’t see myself anymore, …
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