Karate chop
Subtitle: stories
By: Dorthe Nors ; translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken
Contributors: Aitken, Martin, translator
Series: Lannan translation selection
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9781555976651
Subjects: Danish Short stories; Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A collection of stories explores the mundane and the dangerous in daily life, including tales of a husband obsessed with female serial killers and a bureaucrat who converts to Buddhism to gain power.
Notes: "A Public space book."
Table of contents: title: Do you know Jussi? --; title: Mutual destruction --; title: Buddhist --; title: The winter garden --; title: The big tomato --; title: Duckling --; title: Female killers --; title: Flight --; title: Nat Newsom --; title: Hair salon --; title: The heron --; title: Karate chop --; title: Mother, grandmother, and Aunt Ellen --; title: She frequented cemeteries --; title: The Wadden Sea.