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The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its gaze, has the feel of a series study, or of a natural history, though one performed in a strange and not entirely rational laboratory, or field. The intensity in these stories derives in part from looking at humans under the very ordinary extremities of love and desire. Neither love, nor femininity, is the subject matter so much as it is the medium.

Translated by Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser

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      Publisher Quercus Publishing
      Published 11 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9781529405484
      978-1529405484
      ISBN-10 1529405483
      Also in:
      Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its gaze, has the feel of a series study, or of a natural history, though one performed in a strange and not entirely rational laboratory, or field. The intensity in these stories derives in part from looking at humans under the very ordinary extremities of love and desire. Neither love, nor femininity, is the subject matter so much as it is the medium.

      Translated by Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser

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