Dorthe Nors, trans. from the Danish by Martin Aitken. Graywolf, $14 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-55597-665-1
These very short works (most are no more than three pages, the longest is roughly eight) are as sharp-edged, destructive, and intentionally made as the title suggests. Nowhere here is a word out of place. Imagine Grace Paley with more than a little...
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Dorthe Nors, trans. from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra. Graywolf, $15 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-55597-742-9
These two experimental novellas from Nors (Karate Chop) follow artists through personal and aesthetic crises after breakups. The first, “Minna Needs Rehearsal Space,” shows Nors’s economy and perceptiveness, and outshines the second, “Days.” Minna...
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Dorthe Nors, trans. from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra. Graywolf (FSG, dist.), $16 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-55597-808-2
The astute and contemplative latest from Nors (So Much for That Winter) follows 40-something Sonja, a transplant to Copenhagen from rural Jutland, as she belatedly comes to terms with adulthood. It’s been years since she spoke to her simpler, better-
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Dorthe Nors, trans. from the Danish by Caroline Waight. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-64445-209-7
Danish novelist Nors (Mirror, Shoulder, Signal) makes her first foray into nonfiction with this poetic chronicle of her time spent along Denmark’s North Sea coast. The rugged and ever-shifting coastline, which Nors paints as harsh and unforgiving...
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Dorthe Nors, trans. from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra. Graywolf, $15 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-64445-043-7
Danish writer Nors’s sensuous experimental collection (after Mirror, Shoulder, Signal) offers an ethereal tour through ordinary places made strange and eerie. A bare-bones plot and rich, hypnotic prose sketch a portrait of a man hiding out from his...
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