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Wild swims : stories / Dorthe Nors ; translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra.

by Nors, Dorthe, 1970-

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Graywolf Press, 2021.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

9781644450437 (trade pbk.)

124 p. ; 21 cm.

"Wild Swims was first published as Kort Over Canada by Gyldendal in Denmark, 2018."--T.p. verso.

"FIrst published in English by Pushkin Press in 2020."--T.p. verso.

In English, translated from the Danish.

In a deer stand -- Sun dogs -- Hygge -- By Sydvest Station -- Between offices -- The fairground -- Compaction birds -- Pershing Square -- Honeysuckle -- On narrow paved paths -- Inside St. Paul's -- The freezer chest -- Manitoba -- Wild swims.

"In fourteen effervescent stories, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy and everything in between. Just as she did in her English-language debut, Karate Chop, Nors slices straight to the core of the conflict in only a few p. But Wild Swims expands the borders of her gaze, following people as they travel through Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. Here are portraits of men and women full of restless longing, people who are often seeking a home but rarely finding it. A lie told during a fraught ferry ride on the North Sea becomes a wound that festers between school friends. A writer at a remote cabin befriends the mother of an ex-lover. Two friends knock doors to solicit fraudulent donations for the cancer society. A woman taken with the idea of wild swims ventures as far as the local swimming pool."--Amazon.

Literary fiction.

Danish fiction -- Translations into English.

Hoekstra, Misha.

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