Sleur is een roofdier

The people in these stories are at once stranger and more ordinary than anyone you know. A drinker scales a tree as far as he can to keep reality in view; a man leaving his wife and children records words into empty pots. Nothing follows logic in their worlds. They come from every background, from nursing to the circus, and mostly look for company, and the writer reveals them in fragments, often leaving it unclear for pages whether the speaker is male or female. In the title story a divorced pair try to separate even further; elsewhere a man is convinced he ought to kill himself.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

172 pages in the original

First published

2007 by Van Oorschot

Author's age

68 when first published

ISBN

9789028240711 (original)

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