Everything Like Before: Stories by Kjell Askildsen, Sean Kinsella (Translator)
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Overview: From one of the greatest Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, comes a collection of spare, biting stories of people caught between reality and expectation, hope and despair, love and longing. A man and a woman in a quiet, remote house, an old man on a park bench, an estranged brother in a railway café — Kjell Askildsen’s characters are surrounded by absence. Filled with disquiet, and longing, they walk to a fjord, they smoke, they drink on a veranda, they listen to conversations that drift through open windows. Small flashes like the promise of a sunhat, a nail in a cherry tree, or a raised flag, reveal the interminable space between desire and reality in which Askildsen’s characters are forever suspended. Widely recognized as one of the greatest modern short-story writers, with unadorned prose and a dark humor, Askildsen captures life as it really is, the worlds of his characters uncanny mirrors of our own.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Includes:
- A Bucket of Time
A Lovely Spot
A Sudden Liberating Thought
Encounter
Everything Like Before
I’m not like this, I’m not like this
Mardon’s Night
Midsummer
The Dogs of Thessaloniki
Sunhat
The Grasshopper
The Joker
The Nail in the Cherry Tree
The Other Dream
After the Funeral Service
Georg
Gerhard P
Gustav Herre
Konrad T
Marion
The Cost of Friendship
The Toilet Bag
Nothing for Nothing
The Wake
An Uplifting Funeral
Thomas F’s Final Notes to the Public
Carl Lange
Chess
Carl
My Goodness
Café-goers
Maria
Mrs. M
The Banister
The Disturbance
At the Barber’s
Thomas
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