Kleine dagen

Day by day, in short prose pieces, a father notes how his son and daughter are changing. The girl, barely five, suddenly carries herself like a self-assured lady and trades knowing looks with her friends; the boy moulds his hair into a crest, pretends to be a Norse warrior or a basketball star, and hopes his dad secretly holds up banks. Meanwhile the man himself, a doubting intellectual most at ease at his writing table, is remade by them: he accepts blinking lights on the tree and loud plastic toys, gloats after winning a ping-pong match against his son, then feels guilty. Not everything glows, either; some holidays are simply dull.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

186 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2009 by Atlas

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9789045015798 (original)