Gunnhild Øyehaug
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"Gunnhild Øyehaug extracts the bizarre from the mundane and reveals the strange, startling brilliance of everyday life....[Her] stories converse with, contradict, and expand on one another; birds, hagfish, and wild beasts reappear, gnawing at the fringes. A section of a woman’s brain slips into the toilet bowl, removing her ability to remember or recognize types of birds (particularly problematic because she is an ornithologist). Medicinal leeches...
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A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway's most celebrated writers
First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug's radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds.
In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love...
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Un hombre que nace con un cordón umbilical indestructible; Maurice Blanchot flotando río abajo; Julio Cortázar flotando río arriba; una familia que descubre con estupor que la abuela era una persona sexualmente activa; una librera que no puede dejar de leer todo lo que pasa en clave simbólica; extraterrestres que comen perritos calientes; un ciervo que se siente infeliz en el lindero de un bosque mientras espera que algún humano lo descubra...
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"On an ordinary day in Bergen, Norway, in the late 1990s, Anna is reading in the garden while her two-year-old daughter, Laura, plays on her tricycle. Then, in one startling moment, Anna misreads a word, an alternate universe opens up, and Laura disappears. Twenty years or so later, life has gone on as if nothing happened, but in each of the women’s lives, something is not quite right. Both Anna and Laura continue to exist, but they are invisible...
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"[T]his year’s edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Valeria Luiselli has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including stories in translation from Bengali, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. The winning stories are accompanied by an introduction...