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"The first book in English by an acclaimed Danish writer: "beautiful, faceted, haunting stories . . . [from] a rising star" (Junot Díaz) Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors's acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press & A Public Space. These fifteen compact stories are meticulously observed glimpses of everyday life that expose the ominous lurking under the ordinary. While his wife sleeps, a husband prowls the Internet, obsessed with female serial killers; a bureaucrat tries to reinvent himself, exposing goodness as an artifice when he converts to Buddhism in search of power; a woman sits on the edge of the bed where her lover lies, attempting to locate a motive for his violence within her own self-doubt. Shifting between moments of violence (real & imagined) & mundane contemporary life, these stories encompass the complexity of human emotions, our capacity for cruelty as well as compassion. Not so much minimalist as stealthy, Karate Chop delivers its blows with an understatement that shows a master at work.°°° Dorthe Nors is the author of the story collection Wild Swims; 4 novels, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, a finalist for the Man Book

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Author

Nors, Dorthe; Aitken, Martin

Publisher

Graywolf press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782274322

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

3.75 / 5 (547 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14