· Gunnhild Øyehaug’s collection of stories, Knots, are thought-provoking, and at times funny, serious, sad, and mysterious. Only a story or two might be uncomfortable, but teasing out of the imagery and description, offers quite a few thoughts on ordinary events, ordinary people, and that should get your mind whirring. 5 stars. · Translation can be a sluggish triumph. It has taken thirteen years for Gunnhild Øyehaug’s collection of stories, “ Knots,” which first appeared in Norwegian, to arrive in an English. · A mesmerizing collection of playfully surreal stories from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers First published in Norway in , Knots is Gunnhild Øyehaug’s radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds.
In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Gunnhild Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud's thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the. Knots, by Gunnhild Øyehaug, is an enchanting and, at times, infuriating book of extremely short stories — most are two pages or fewer. And though each story is maddeningly brief, each contains a glittering universe of sharp edges and long shadows, intricate and fully formed like some Gothic Faberge egg. Gunnhild Øyehaug's collection of stories, Knots, are thought-provoking, and at times funny, serious, sad, and mysterious. Only a story or two might be uncomfortable, but teasing out of the imagery and description, offers quite a few thoughts on ordinary events, ordinary people, and that should get your mind whirring. 5 stars.
Gunnhild Øyehaug (born 9 January , Volda, Norway) is a Norwegian poet, writer and lecturer.. Literary career. She made her literary debut in with a collection of poems "Slaven av blåbæret" (t: Slave of the Blueberry). K nots is Norwegian author Gunnhild Øyehaug’s first book to appear in English. Without saying anything (yet) about the book’s contents, let me observe that “Knots” is a rather nondescript title for a book. (You might say it’s as nondescript as Ties.) But Abe, it’s about the ties that bind us as human beings, the knots in which we find ourse— yibbidy-dibbidy, yeah that’s all fiction you’re talking about. Knots. A displeased deer, a man tied to his mother by an un-severable umbilical cord, a young woman who is secretly in love with her terminally ill best friend, a slightly peculiar UFO: Gunnhild Øyehaug's acclaimed short stories balance between the sensuous, the surre-alistic and the comic.
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