Een goed verhaal

Six stories show the distance between people's polite surfaces and the storms underneath. An ageing writer belittles the woman who lives with him, and she gets rid of his insults by blowing them into the night air; an unfaithful husband is cross-examined by his wife about the affair, over and over; a woman on holiday, told off by a guard for handling an antique, apologises sweetly, invents a family trade to explain herself, and inwardly calls the guard a fool. These characters dread being abandoned, but keep making the very decisions that leave them lonely, and each of them can wound as well as be wounded.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

159 pages in the original

First published

2009 by Atlas

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9789045014692 (original)

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