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It's Getting Dark by Peter Stamm

It's Getting Dark

Stories

Stories

By Peter Stamm
Translated by Michael Hofmann

By Peter Stamm
Translated by Michael Hofmann

By Peter Stamm
Translated by Michael Hofmann

By Peter Stamm
Translated by Michael Hofmann

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    About It’s Getting Dark

    A new story collection from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review) deftly evokes and explores the shifts that occur when the world grows dark.

    Snowed in at a remote artists’ residency in Vermont, Peter recalls another Christmas some thirty years ago, when he met Marcia by chance on a trip to New York City. Only now, in this eerie, isolated place, does he begin to see the consequences of their brief affair through a series of connections.
            When Hubert asks Sabrina to model for a sculpture, she’s flattered and happy to help. But facing the finished product, looking at herself from previously hidden angles, disturbs her, and she becomes determined to follow her double after it’s sold to a collector.
            Uneasy in his own skin and with the humdrum life set out for him, David decides to rob a bank. He already has a mask for the purpose, but he won’t be using it today. He’s heard that bank robbers often study the scene for weeks before they strike. So he’s started to lurk.
            We think we know our world, but then the familiar suddenly turns strange, and even frightening. In these powerfully affecting, minutely constructed stories, Peter Stamm illustrates how fragile our reality really is, how susceptible to tricks of the heart and mind.

    About It’s Getting Dark

    A new story collection from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review) deftly evokes and explores the shifts that occur when the world grows dark.

    Snowed in at a remote artists’ residency in Vermont, Peter recalls another Christmas some thirty years ago, when he met Marcia by chance on a trip to New York City. Only now, in this eerie, isolated place, does he begin to see the consequences of their brief affair through a series of connections.
            When Hubert asks Sabrina to model for a sculpture, she’s flattered and happy to help. But facing the finished product, looking at herself from previously hidden angles, disturbs her, and she becomes determined to follow her double after it’s sold to a collector.
            Uneasy in his own skin and with the humdrum life set out for him, David decides to rob a bank. He already has a mask for the purpose, but he won’t be using it today. He’s heard that bank robbers often study the scene for weeks before they strike. So he’s started to lurk.
            We think we know our world, but then the familiar suddenly turns strange, and even frightening. In these powerfully affecting, minutely constructed stories, Peter Stamm illustrates how fragile our reality really is, how susceptible to tricks of the heart and mind.

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    About Peter Stamm

    Peter Stamm is the author of the novels Seven Years, On a Day Like This, and Unformed Landscape, and the short-story collections We’re Flying and In Strange Gardens and Other Stories. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and… More about Peter Stamm

    About Peter Stamm

    Peter Stamm is the author of the novels Seven Years, On a Day Like This, and Unformed Landscape, and the short-story collections We’re Flying and In Strange Gardens and Other Stories. His prize-winning books have been translated into more than thirty languages. For his entire body of work and… More about Peter Stamm

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $22.99
    Published by Other Press
    Dec 07, 2021 | 240 Pages | 5 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9781635420302

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Other Press
    Dec 07, 2021 | 208 Pages | 5 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9781635420319

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    Praise for Peter Stamm:

    “Stamm’s prose (beautifully translated by Michael Hofmann) is plain but not so simple…A subtle but deadly style.” —Zadie Smith

    “Peter Stamm is an extraordinary author who can make the ordinary absolutely electrifying…Hard to recommend too highly.” —Tim Parks

    “A master writer…His prose…is as sharply illuminating as a surgical light.” —The Economist

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