Karate Chop
9 best books like Karate Chop (Dorthe Nors): A Single Thread, Make it Scream, Make it Burn, The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories, Vandmærket, Den, der lever stille, En dag vil vi grine af det, Constellations, Come Rain or Come Shine: Faber Stories, Animals Eat Each Other
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....
Make it Scream, Make it Burn
| Author | Leslie Jamison |
| ISBN | 0316259632 |
A new collection of essays about obsession and longing from Leslie Jamison, the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams. A combination of memoir, criticism, and journalism, Make It Scream, Make It Burn is Leslie Jamison's profound exploration of the oceanic depths...
| Author | Joy Williams |
| ISBN | 1101874899 |
The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years—and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order.
Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in...
| Author | Naja Marie Aidt |
| ISBN | 8702015188 |
Vandmærket er Aidts første novellesamling, og allerede her kan man ane spirer til det, der skal blive hendes forfatterskab. De ni noveller svinger mellem fremragende (Som englene flyver, En kærlighedshistorie) og hæderlige (Tre dage i Prag), men bliver aldrig dårlige. Sproget alene er nok...
| Author | Leonora Christina Skov |
Da Leonoras mor dør, beslutter hun at skrive den faktiske historie om sig selv og sit liv. Om den ensomme Christina, der vokser op i et rødt parcelhus i Helsinge med en plan: Hvis bare hun opfører sig almindeligt, får topkarakterer og ikke gør sin mor ked af det eller sin far vred, kan det være, at de...
Hvad sker der med en familie i underskud, som pludselig kommer til penge? Som endelig får det, de har drømt om? Vil alt nu endelig blive godt i hjemmet for enden af den lange grusvej lidt uden for Skive?
Thomas Korsgaard tog læsere og anmeldere med storm med sin debutroman Hvis der skulle komme...
| Author | Sinéad Gleeson |
| ISBN | 1509892753 |
I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.
How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story...
Come Rain or Come Shine: Faber Stories
| Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| ISBN | 0571351743 |
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look...
| Author | Elle Nash |
| ISBN | 1938604431 |
In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way relationship with Matt, a satanist and a tattoo artist, and his girlfriend Frances, a new mom. The liaison is caged by strict rules and rigid emotional distance. Nonetheless, it’s all too easy to surrender...
