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Minna Needs Rehearsal Space

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782274353

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A moving novella unlike any other by the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted author Minna is feeling desperate. Lars has just dumped her by text message. Her friends are constantly flaunting their lovers, children and dogs on Facebook. And her neurotic sister is everywhere she turns. Minna wants a place in Copenhagen to practise her music. Minna wants a child. But what Minna really needs is to get away from it all. So, with only Ingmar Bergman for company, she decides to take a trip to the coast. And there is more on the horizon than she might imagine. Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. She is one of the most original voices in contemporary Danish literature. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international periodicals including The Boston Review and Harpers, and she is the first Danish writer ever to have a story published in the New Yorker. Nors has published four novels so far, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal - shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize - and a collection of stories Karate Chop, also published by Pushkin Press. Karate Chop won the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize in 2014. She lives in rural Jutland, Denmark.

Karate Chop

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782274339

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Beautiful, emotionally resonant and achingly contemporary stories from the Man Booker International Prize Shortlisted author In these glittering tales, Dorthe Nors sketches ordinary lives taking unexpected turns: a walk amongst the herons in Copenhagen inspires depraved thoughts; a woman in an abusive relationship searches for explanations; a man Googles female serial killers while his girlfriend sleeps; a daughter watches silently as her mother succumbs to madness. Blending compassion with dark delight, Nors conjures up fresh moments of isolation and frail beauty with each cautionary glance. Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. She is one of the most original voices in contemporary Danish literature. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international periodicals including The Boston Review and Harpers, and she is the first Danish writer ever to have a story published in the New Yorker. Nors has published four novels so far, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal - shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize - and a novella Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, also published by Pushkin Press. Karate Chop won the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize in 2014. She lives in rural Jutland, Denmark.

So Much for That Winter

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555979386

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Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very twenty-first-century romances. In "Days," a woman in her late thirties records her life in a series of lists, giving shape to the tumult of her days--one moment she is eating an apple, the next she is on the floor, howling like a dog. As the details accumulate, we experience with her the full range of emotions: anger, loneliness, regret, pain, and also joy, as the lists become a way to understand, connect to, and rebuild her life. In "Minna Needs Rehearsal Space," a novella told in headlines, an avant-garde musician is dumped via text message. Fleeing the indignity of the breakup and friends who flaunt their achievements in life, career, and family, Minna unfriends people on Facebook, listens to Bach, and reads Ingmar Bergman, then decamps to an island near Sweden, "well suited to mental catharsis." A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors's unique wit and humor.

Karate Chop

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782271198

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Karate Chop by Dorthe Nors Pdf

Two daringly original works from the acclaimed Danish author Dorthe Nors, published back to back in a uniquely designed edition.

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781555978082

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Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister. But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate. Her driving instructor won't let her change gear. And her sister won't return her calls. Sonja's mind keeps wandering back to the dramatic landscapes of her childhood--the singing whooper swans, the endless sky, and getting lost barefoot in the rye fields--but how can she return to a place that she no longer recognises? And how can she escape the alienating streets of Copenhagen?

Wild Swims

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644451397

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A dazzling return to the short story by a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize In fourteen effervescent stories, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy and everything in between. Just as she did in her English-language debut, Karate Chop, Nors slices straight to the core of the conflict in only a few pages. But Wild Swims expands the borders of her gaze, following people as they travel through Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. Here are portraits of men and women full of restless longing, people who are often seeking a home but rarely finding it. A lie told during a fraught ferry ride on the North Sea becomes a wound that festers between school friends. A writer at a remote cabin befriends the mother of an ex-lover. Two friends knock doors to solicit fraudulent donations for the cancer society. A woman taken with the idea of wild swims ventures as far as the local swimming pool. These stories have already been featured in the pages of New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Tin House, and A Public Space. They sound the darker tones of human nature and yet find the brighter chords of hope and humor as well. Cutting and offbeat without ever losing its warmth, Wild Swims is a master class in concision and restraint, and a path to living life without either. With Wild Swims Nors’s star will continue to be ascendant.

A Line in the World

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781644451922

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A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors Pdf

A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of the world. Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It’s a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct. Dorthe Nors’s first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and ancestors’ ties to the region as well as her decision to move there from Copenhagen. She writes about the ritual burning of witch effigies on Midsummer’s Eve; the environmental activist who opposed a chemical factory in the 1950s; the quiet fishing villages that surfers transformed into an area known as Cold Hawaii starting in the 1970s. She connects wind turbines to Viking ships, thirteenth-century church frescoes to her mother’s unrealized dreams. She describes strong waves, sand drifts, storm surges, shipwrecks, and other instances of nature asserting its power over human attempts to ignore or control it. Through a deep, personal engagement with this singular landscape, A Line in the World accesses the universal. Its ultimate subjects are civilization, belonging, and change: changes within one person’s life, changes occurring in various communities today, and change as the only constant of life on Earth.

The Queen, the Princes and the Mermaid

Author : Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher : Pushkin Children's Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782692942

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The Queen, the Princes and the Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen Pdf

A collection of Andersen's most magical fairytales A girl journeys across unknown lands to rescue her friend from the clutches of The Snow Queen, who has imprisoned his heart in ice. A sister struggles to break the spell that has turned her ten princely brothers into swans. A mermaid decides to leave her underwater world behind for love. These renowned fairy tales, brimming with imaginative richness, are some of the most magical and inspiring ever written. Contains: 'The Snow Queen', 'The Wild Swans', 'The Nightingale', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The True-Hearted Tin Soldier'

Identity in Crossroad Civilisations

Author : Erich Kolig,Vivienne S. M. Angeles,Sam Wong
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789089641274

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Identity in Crossroad Civilisations by Erich Kolig,Vivienne S. M. Angeles,Sam Wong Pdf

Deze bundel gaat over de vorming van identiteit door het samenspel van etniciteit, nationalisme en de effecten van globalisering. De essays in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia maken de gelaagdheid en de complexiteit hiervan duidelijk.

The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North

Author : SJÓN,Ted Hodgkinson
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781782273820

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The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat and Other Stories from the North by SJÓN,Ted Hodgkinson Pdf

The best fiction from across the Nordic region, selected and introduced by Sjon - Iceland's internationally renowned writer. This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and compelling volume displays the thrilling diversity of writing from these northern nations. Selected and introduced by Sjon, The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat includes both notable authors and exciting new discoveries. As well as an essential selection of the best contemporary storytelling from the Nordic countries, it's also a fascinating portrait of contemporary life across the region. The perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter's evening.

The Little Sleep

Author : Paul Tremblay
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429919265

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The wickedly entertaining debut featuring Mark Genevich, Narcoleptic Detective Mark Genevich is a South Boston P.I. with a little problem: he's narcoleptic, and he suffers from the most severe symptoms, including hypnagogic hallucinations. These waking dreams wreak havoc for a guy who depends on real-life clues to make his living. Clients haven't exactly been beating down the door when Mark meets Jennifer Times—daughter of the powerful local D.A. and a contestant on American Star—who walks into his office with an outlandish story about a man who stole her fingers. He awakes from his latest hallucination alone, but on his desk is a manila envelope containing risqué photos of Jennifer. Are the pictures real, and if so, is Mark hunting a blackmailer, or worse? Wildly imaginative and with a pitch-perfect voice, Paul Tremblay's The Little Sleep is the first in a new series that casts a fresh eye on the rigors of detective work, and introduces a character who has a lot to prove—if only he can stay awake long enough to do it.

Singularities of Mappings

Author : David Mond,Juan J. Nuño-Ballesteros
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030344405

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Singularities of Mappings by David Mond,Juan J. Nuño-Ballesteros Pdf

The first monograph on singularities of mappings for many years, this book provides an introduction to the subject and an account of recent developments concerning the local structure of complex analytic mappings. Part I of the book develops the now classical real C∞ and complex analytic theories jointly. Standard topics such as stability, deformation theory and finite determinacy, are covered in this part. In Part II of the book, the authors focus on the complex case. The treatment is centred around the idea of the "nearby stable object" associated to an unstable map-germ, which includes in particular the images and discriminants of stable perturbations of unstable singularities. This part includes recent research results, bringing the reader up to date on the topic. By focusing on singularities of mappings, rather than spaces, this book provides a necessary addition to the literature. Many examples and exercises, as well as appendices on background material, make it an invaluable guide for graduate students and a key reference for researchers. A number of graduate level courses on singularities of mappings could be based on the material it contains.

Trilby

Author : George Du Maurier
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Artists
ISBN : BSB:BSB11665792

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"Little Billee is a young English painter with great talent. He and his friends Taffy and the Laird share a studio in a Quartier Latin neighborhood full of artists and musicians, including a German-Polish music teacher named Svengali. The group become acquainted with an artists' model named Trilby, who was orphaned as a child and who works to support her little brother and herself. Trilby is lively, charming, unpretentious, and beautiful, and soon Little Billee is madly in love. When his mother learns that Little Billee intends to marry an artists' model (nude models were almost as socially unacceptable as protitutes) she travels to Paris and tells Trilby that such a marriage would mean ruin for Billee and his family. Trilby promises that she will never see Little Billee again. Soon afterward, Trilby vanishes, leaving Billee sick and distraught. Many years later, Billee and his friends hear of a singer called "La Svengali" who has astonished all of Europe. By attending one of her performances, they learn that "La Svengali" is the wife of the music teacher they knew in the Quartier Latin, trained by him to sing with more technical mastery than anyone has ever heard. When "La Svengali" appears on stage, they see that she is none other than Trilby. Her singing moves the audience to tears, though everyone notices that she moves stiffly and strangely and that her face is as blank as an automaton's. Not until Svengali dies suddenly during a concert is Trilby set free from the hypnotic spell that has controlled her for years.""--Allreaders.com.

Language Socialization in Classrooms

Author : Matthew J. Burdelski,Kathryn M. Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107187832

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Language Socialization in Classrooms by Matthew J. Burdelski,Kathryn M. Howard Pdf

Introduces the concept of language socialization by providing case studies from various classrooms around the world.

Adult Language Education and Migration

Author : James Simpson,Anne Whiteside
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317512769

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Adult Language Education and Migration by James Simpson,Anne Whiteside Pdf

Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging Agendas in Policy and Practice provides a lively and critical examination of policy and practice in language education for adult migrants around the world, showing how opportunities for learning the language of a new country both shape and are shaped by policy moves. Language policies for migrants are often controversial and hotly contested, but at the same time innovative teaching practices are emerging in response to the language learning needs of today’s mobile populations. This book: analyses and challenges language education policies relating to adult migrants in nine countries; provides a comparative study with separate chapters on policy and practice in each country; focuses on Australia, Canada, Spain (Catalonia), Finland, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. Adult Language Education and Migration is essential reading for practitioners, students and researchers working in the area of language education in migration contexts.