Knots: Stories

Author

Kali Fajardo-Anstine

A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centered on Latinas of indigenous ancestry that shines a new light on the American West.

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina...

Author	Amy Hempel
ISBN	1982109114

“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda...

Author	Franny Choi
ISBN	1938584996

Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness―how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with artificial intelligence and automation....

Author	Dorthe Nors
ISBN	1555979386

Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very twenty-first-century romances. In "Days," a woman in her late thirties records her life in a series of lists, giving shape to the tumult of her days--one moment she...

Author	Dag Solstad
ISBN	8270948438

This first edition has several ISBNs. This page has the publisher's ISBN. The book club ISBN is 82-574-1300-3 / 978-82-574-1300-2.

Handlingen i T. Singer starter idet hovedpersonen som 34-årig, nyutdannet bibliotekar reiser med toget til Notodden for å begynne et nytt og anonymt liv...

Author

Dag Solstad

Armand V. er hovedpersonen i denne romanen som består av forfatterens fotnoter til en roman som ikke er skrevet. Midt på 1960-tallet ankommer Armand og hans beste venn, Paul Buer, Oslo og Universitetet på Blindern. De er oppvokst i den samme byen langs Oslofjordens vestside. Paul Buer havner blant...

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1933368802

Maggie Nelson's fourth collection of poems combines a wanderer's attention to landscape with a deeply personal exploration of desire, heartbreak, resilience, accident, and flux. Something Bright, Then Holes explores the problem of losing then recovering sight and insight -- of feeling lost,...

Author	Yūko Tsushima
ISBN	4770015240

By conventional Japanese standards, Koko Mizuno is an abysmal
failure as woman, wife, and mother--and she couldn't care less. She has succeeded in remaining true to herself in a stubborn struggle against powerful conformist pressures. Yet her resistance is largely passive.Self-absorbed,...

Author	Hanne Ørstavik
ISBN	8249504216

‘’A path into the forest, from a long-forgotten place.
Find the path and follow, its ribbon yours to trace.
Past trees and hillocks wander, to a splendid castle old,
In whose halls three ladies fine you shall at last behold.
The prince they there await, if ever he should come.
A...

Author	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ISBN	0141397624

'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.'

A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little...

Author	Hanna Bervoets
ISBN	9492928280

Na een bezoek aan een boerderij wordt Clay ziek. Hij ontwikkelt koorts en vecht voor zijn leven. Wanneer de koorts daalt is hij opgelucht, even. Want de vermoeidheid blijft en Clay krijgt last van chronische pijnen. Q-koortsvermoeidheidssyndroom, luidt de diagnose uiteindelijk. In zijn vergeefse...