Unformed Landscape
A Novel
$31.78
- Hardcover
168 pages
- Release Date
17 April 2005
Summary
Unformed Landscape begins in a small village on a fjord in the Finnmark, on the northeastern coast of Norway, where the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie covered in snow and darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer and winter, and between people. Here, a sensitive young woman like Kathrine finds few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half Sami (an indigenous people), Kathrine works for the customs office inspecting the fishing boats arriv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590511404 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590511409 |
| Author: | Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann |
| Publisher: | Other Press LLC |
| Imprint: | Other Press Professional |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 17 April 2005 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 137mm x 19mm |
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The New Republic Online
Chloë Schama
As the title of his novel Unformed Landscape (Other Press, 2005) and his collection of short stories Strange Gardens and Other Stories (Other Press, 2006) imply, Swiss author Peter Stamm’s characters are deeply affected by their surroundings. The Norwegian fishing village where Katharine, the central character in Unformed Landscapes, resides is a gray place, enlivened only by her increasingly complicated affairs and fantasies of life elsewhere. Like the landscapes of his novels, Stamm’s prose is spare and graceful.
“Unformed Landscape is a masterpiece of minimalism but with deep undercurrents…”
About The Author
Peter Stamm
Peter Stammis the author of the novelsThe Sweet Indifference of theWorld,Tothe Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, andAgnes, and the short-story collectionsWe’re FlyingandIn Strange Gardens and Other Stories. His award-winning books have been translated into more than forty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich H lderlin Prize. He lives in Switzerland.Michael Hofmann has translated the work of Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Peter Stephan Jungk, and many others. He is the author of several books of poems and a book of essays, Behind the Lines, and is the editor of the anthology Twentieth-Century German Poetry. In 2012 he was awarded the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida and London.
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