- Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Interpersonal relations
A haunting selection of twelve thematically connected short stories examines the complexity and changing quality of modern-day human relationships over the course of time, as he explores the lives of a lustful photographer who confronts his own mortality, a father who tries to transform his new lover into his late wife, and other characters.
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Spare, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 215
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375424687
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