WILD SWIMS - Dorthe Nors

~ Trade Paperback

Wild Swims: Stories

Acclaimed Danish writer Dorthe Nors creates a series of intimate, psychologically acute portraits of individuals in states of emotional crisis within the short stories included in the dazzling short story collection Wild Swims, which sees a woman's attempts to cope with a recent breakup lead her to commit a deeply immoral act, a professor's relationship with a much older woman takes a sudden sinister turn, a man who has grown resentful of his partner takes drastic action, and a young woman's nostalgic memories of wild swimming draw her back to the water . . .

In prose that is both elegantly spare and saturated with emotion, Wild Swims explores the relationships that people have with others, and those we forge with ourselves, with Nors' characteristic empathy and insight.