Karate Chop/Minna Needs Rehearsal Space
Dorthe Nors
Dorthe Nors might just be the European Lydia Davis. A writer of short, ruminative stories tackling abusive relationships, wily mothers and dead herons, she is the only Dane to have fiction published by the New Yorker. Pushkin Press has collected 15 of her best stories together with a novella, Minna Needs Rehearsal Space, translated into English for the first time by Martin Aitken and written in single-sentence paragraphs – “a novel in headlines”, as Nors calls it. This is a remarkable book: honest, soothing, emotionally resonant and unlike anything else you are likely to read from this side of the Atlantic.
Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month
Content from our partners
