Two works by Dorthe Nors, a collection of short stories and a novella, are brought together for the first time. In Karate Chop, a children’s psychologist, lost in self-doubt, examines her believed complicity in her own destruction; a man, obsessed with serial killers, turns to the internet to explore female violence; a mother and daughter travel to the World’s End, in hope of finding their peace. In Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, Minna, musician, composer, artist, needs to find space to rehearse – or just space to get away. Away from the realities of life, from the meaningless interactions of our digital age, and from the loneliness of a relationship coming to an end. With stark, simple and stylishly original prose, Dorthe Nors explores the intricacies of modern existence and modern relationships. Reading like an antonym to our digital society, where much is said but little meaning is truly conveyed, Nors’s meticulously structured work examines the complexity, and sometimes cruelty, of human psychology and desire.
Circa l’autore
Dorthe Nors was born in 1970 and studied literature at the University of Aarhus. Her short stories have appeared in numerous international publications including the Boston Review, Harper’s and the New Yorker. Nors’s works include Wild Swims, Karate Chop, Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, and Mirror, Shoulder, Signal – shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize – which are all published by Pushkin Press. Born in rural Jutland, she lives on the North Sea coast in Denmark.
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