Karate Chop & Minna Needs Rehearsal Space

Dorthe Nors, Misha Hoekstra, Martin Aitken, Misha Hoekstra, Martin Aitken

• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782271260
• Print ISBN:
  9781782271192
• Subtopic: Literature General

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Do You Know Jussi?
• Mutual Destruction
• The Buddhist
• The Winter Garden
• The Big Tomato
• Duckling
• Female Killers
• Flight
• Nat Newsom
• Hair Salon
• The Heron
• Karate Chop
• Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt Ellen
• She Frequented Cemeteries
• The Wadden Sea
• Author’s Acknowledgments
• Translator’s Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright
• Cover
• Title Page
• Minna Introduces Herself.
• Quotations in the Text
• About the Publisher
• About the Author
• Copyright