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Der Trost runder Dinge
“The Comfort of Round Things” (title translated by AI)
Clemens Setz (born 1982)
English editions
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Twenty stories, between a few lines and thirty-odd pages long, in which the grotesque and threatening break into everyday life. An Alsatian soldier in the First World War discovers a constellation in the night sky so horrible that he can tell no one about it. A young man in love with blind Anja finds her flat scrawled from top to bottom with insults she cannot see. A school nurse kidnaps a boy instead of curing him. A stranger calls on a family claiming to have grown up in their house, a stun gun hidden under his borrowed jacket. And a writer's delayed, then cancelled flight to Canada carries him into a fantastic world.
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About the book
- Form
- Short stories
- Length
- 314 pages in the original
- First published
- 2019 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
- ISBN
9783518428528 (original)
- More
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