Wild Swims

By: Dorthe Nors

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Short story,

ISBN: 9781782275503

SKU: BE500454870319

Pages: 124

Description: Wild Swims features Nors at her best. These fourteen stories leave questions unanswered, offering no clear or single resolution to their conflicts. They are kaleidoscopic: a slight shift in perspective leads to an entirely new reading. At the same time, Nors is the queen of concision. Most of the stories in Wild Swims are around five pages long, within which Nors creates complex characters and condenses entire worlds into single sentences. One narrator observes, “there isn’t much more to say about that week in London other than that I spent a week in London when I was eighteen,” which somehow says it all. The tension Nors—and Hoesktra—create between concision and multiplicity, between contraction and expansion, is in part what makes this collection so impressive.