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This collection of distinctive short short stories features characters in all kinds of entanglements. The beautifully translated pieces give a real sense of Oyehaug's style of writing—full of blunt repetition, offhand observation, and a dry sense of the absurd. Perhaps the most notable and one of the longer stories is "Small Knot," in which a son is attached to his mother for life and beyond by an umbilical cord that literally cannot be severed, leading to complicated relationships and a limited l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More