Karate Chop & Minna Needs Rehearsal Space
by Dorthe Nors
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Two daringly original works from the acclaimed Danish author Dorthe Nors, published back to back in a uniquely designed edition.Tags
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The book consists of a series of short stories (Karate Chop) published dilatorily back to back with a novella (Minna Needs Rehearsal Space). Of the two I much preferred the novella which is written in an experimental style which on reflection I'm surprise not to have seen done before. The sentences are all very short, mostly less than a single line, and the effect is somewhat like a Dick and Jane book ("Minna is on Facebook / Minna isn't a day over forty / Minas a composer / ...") but in a grown-up book it provides an unsettling effect.
Uneven, some of the stories are excellent though.
Uneven, some of the stories are excellent though.
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Many of the stories have spot-on insight into how people package up their traumas and hide from themselves what hurts [...] Karate Chop’s compact stories leave the reader wishing paradoxically for this sort of thing at greater length, but without diluting the effect.
Luckily, flip this double-ended paperback over and we get just that, in the novella Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, translated by show more Misha Hoekstra. How often can we honestly say that a book is unlike anything else? Yet here it is, unique in form and effect. show less
Luckily, flip this double-ended paperback over and we get just that, in the novella Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, translated by show more Misha Hoekstra. How often can we honestly say that a book is unlike anything else? Yet here it is, unique in form and effect. show less
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Dorthe Nors is the author of four novels, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize; two novellas, collected in So Much for That Winter; and the story collection Karate Chop, winner of the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize. Nors lives in Denmark.
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 839.8138 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literatures Danish Danish fiction 2000–
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- PT8177.24 .O77 .A2 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Danish literature Individual authors or works 2001-
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- Dutch, English, Swedish
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- Paper, Ebook
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