Sometimes I lie and sometimes I don't
Subtitle: stories
By: Nadja Spiegel ; translated from the German by Rachel McNicholl
Contributors: McNicholl, Rachel, translator
Edition: First edition.
Series: Austrian literature series; Austrian literature series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9781628970623
Other titles: Sometimes I lie and sometimes I do not
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Love, injury, deception, uncertainty, and self-sacrifice: debut author Nadja Spiegel is hardly the first person to write about these things, but the way she has written about them is incomparable. Constructing virtuoso depictions of life in a style that lets them get right under your skin, Spiegel's precise, brittle, seemingly straightforward prose paints a vibrant picture of human compromise and cooperation with both humor and restraint. Bittersweet, made up of just a few simple strokes, these stories herald the arrival of an important new voice in European literature. --
Notes: Originally published in 2011, under title: Manchmal luge ich und manchmal nicht.
Table of contents: title: Meta plays the violin --; title: Death and Ophelia --; title: How it is --; title: It's about crocodiles, stones and diving, says Hannes --; title: Hunger --; title: Ginger light --; title: A sliver of moon --; title: Dust motes in the air --; title: C.'s smile --; title: I don't know --; title: Someplace else --; title: Auntie Anna and Selma and Selma and --; title: Before Max came --; title: Pine shoots and fish cans --; title: Nighthawks --; title: Flickering lights --; title: Fatherland --; title: Lisa and Elias and me --; title: What Björn did not imagine --; title: How we forgive.