Karate Chop
by Dorthe Nors, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken.
Graywolf, 89 pp., $15.00 (paper)
So Much for That Winter
by Dorthe Nors, translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra.
Graywolf, 147 pp., $15.00 (paper)
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
by Dorthe Nors, translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra.
Graywolf, 188 pp., $16.00 (paper)
Wild Swims
by Dorthe Nors, translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra.
Graywolf, 124 pp., $15.00 (paper)
How slippery the work of the Danish writer Dorthe Nors is, how it sideswipes and gleams. When I consider her four books translated into English—two story collections, a pair of novellas, one novel—I think of music. As with music, I can hold only small strands of Nors’s work in my mind at a time, while the whole composition…
