$27.81
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2024
Summary
In Evil Flowers, a precise but madcap collection of short stories, Gunnhild Øyehaug extracts the bizarre from the mundane and reveals the strange, startling brilliance of everyday life.
In her new collection, Øyehaug renovates the form again and again, confirming Lydia Davis’s observation that her “every story [is] a formal surprise, smart and droll.” These tales converse with, contradict, and expand on one another; birds, slime eels, and wild beasts reappear, gnawing at the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250321800 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250321808 |
| Author: | Gunnhild Øyehaug, Gunnhild Øyehaug; Translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson, Translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | Picador USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 129mm x 192mm |
Gunnhild Øyehaug
Gunnhild Øyehaug is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her story collection Knots was published in 2017, followed in 2018 by Wait, Blink, which was adapted into the acclaimed film Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts, and in 2022 by Present Tense Machine. Øyehaug lives in Bergen, where she teaches creative writing.
Kari Dickson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and grew up bilingual. She has a BA in Scandinavian studies and an MA in translation. Her translation of Brown, written by Håkon Øvreås and illustrated by Øyvind Torseter, won the 2020 Mildred L. Batchelder Award. Before becoming a translator, she worked in theater in London and Oslo. She teaches in the Scandinavian studies department at the University of Edinburgh.
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