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An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though ...more
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another; they all yearn for connection and betterment, though ...more
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Hardcover, 294 pages
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January 17th 2017
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Bereits im Spätjahr 2018 hatte mich die Autorin Ottessa Moshfegh mit „Eileen“ komplett in ihren literarischen Bann gezogen. Wenn mich ein schreibender Mensch einmal so erwischt hat, dann lese ich mit aller größter Gewissheit auch weitere Bücher aus dessen Feder. So war „Heimweh nach einer anderen Welt“ vielmehr als nur ein Lesen wollen!
14 Storys auf 336 Seiten über Menschen und deren Leben, Gewohnheiten und überraschenden Ungewöhnlichkeiten. Letzteres kommt erst nach und nach zum Vorschein und o ...more
14 Storys auf 336 Seiten über Menschen und deren Leben, Gewohnheiten und überraschenden Ungewöhnlichkeiten. Letzteres kommt erst nach und nach zum Vorschein und o ...more
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Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Granta, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Pri
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