Translated from Swedish by Henning Koch “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, Ove is trying to buy an iPad and driving the salesman crazy. …
Month: January 2020
A Haunted House and Other Stories: Virginia Woolf
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 now found its place on my …
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Go, Went, Gone: Jenny Erpenbeck
Translated from German by Susan Bernofsky “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, can’t see the child I used to be.” The voices here …
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