Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“dorthe nors”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dorthe nors”
Skip side bar filters
  • Range

    In this mesmerizing novel, an astrophysicist searches for her place among her neighbors and in the universeGunn Haven, professor of astrophysics, has taken a leave from the institute where she teaches and moved to a rural area. She’s here for the clear night sky and for solitude as she tracks gamma-ray bursts and researches the origins of the universe.But while Gunn studies celestial bodies, she ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

    A Novel

    by Dorthe Nors ...
    Translated by Misha Hoekstra ...
    A smart, witty novel of driving lessons and vertigo, short-listed for the Man Booker International PrizeSonja is ready to get on with her life. She’s over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her sister, and is finally learning to drive. But under the overbearing gaze of her driving instructor, Sonja is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Line in the World

    A Year on the North Sea Coast

    by Dorthe Nors ...
    A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of the world.Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It’s a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct.Dorthe Nors’s first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Wild Swims

    Stories

    by Dorthe Nors ...
    Translated by Misha Hoekstra ...
    A dazzling return to the short story by a finalist for the Man Booker International PrizeIn fourteen effervescent stories, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy and everything in between. Just as she did in her English-language debut, Karate Chop, Nors slices straight to the core of the conflict in only a few pages. But Wild Swims expands the borders of her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Karate Chop

    Stories

    by Dorthe Nors ...
    Translated by Martin Aitken ...
    The first book in English by an acclaimed Danish writer: "beautiful, faceted, haunting stories . . . [from] a rising star" (Junot Díaz)Karate Chop, Dorthe Nors's acclaimed story collection, is the debut book in the collaboration between Graywolf Press and A Public Space. These fifteen compact stories are meticulously observed glimpses of everyday life that expose the ominous lurking under the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • So Much for That Winter

    Novellas

    by Dorthe Nors ...
    Translated by Misha Hoekstra ...
    Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very twenty-first-century romances. In "Days," a woman in her late thirties records her life in a series of lists, giving shape to the tumult of her days--one moment she is eating an apple, the next she is on the floor, howling like a dog. As the details accumulate, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

    A Novel

    by Dorthe Nors ...
    Narrated by Justine Eyre ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 48 min

    Sonja is ready to get on with her life. She's over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her sister, and is finally learning to drive. But under the overbearing gaze of her driving instructor, Sonja is unable to shift gears for herself. And her vertigo, which she has always carefully hidden, has begun to ... Read more

    Was $25.99 USD Now $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    A Line in the World

    A Year on the North Sea Coast

    by Dorthe Nors ...
    Narrated by Ann Richardson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 50 min

    Dorthe Nors's first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and ancestors' ties to the region as well as her decision to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power Yoga

    An Individualized Approach to Strength, Grace, and Inner Peace

    Translated by Dorthe Nors ...
    Beautiful photographs and helpful advice for anyone who enjoys yoga. According to Power Yoga, more than 16 million yoga enthusiasts in America spend almost $3 billion dollars on classes and products each year. Yoga is becoming an increasingly popular activity, and author Ulrica Norberg helps yoga-goers put their money to good work by demonstrating technique in vivid detail and by revealing yoga’s ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Audiobook

    Uncommon Ground

    Rethinking our relationship with the countryside

    Narrated by Patrick Galbraith ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 35 min

    ‘A curious-minded and subtle intervention in the politics of the countryside’ Sunday Times'Galbraith spent three years investigating the truth about rural Britain and how we treat it. Uncommon Ground is the brilliant result' Daily Telegraph'Very funny. Acutely observed. An attempt to look beyond the usual clichés of country life' Observer“B... ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    11 hours 13 min

    **"Both heartbreaking and sharply funny...Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey is brilliant and surprising at every turn."—Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist for The Great BelieversA heart-tugging and gorgeously written novel based on the incredible true story of a WWI messenger pigeon and the soldiers whose lives she forever altered, from the author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk.**From the green ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Home Making

    A Novel

    Unabridged

    5 hours 1 min

    ""An intricate exploration of family and home, of mother and child, of friends, of women and written with both precision and style.""—Weike Wang, author of ChemistryFrom a talented, powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning novel about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a house a true home.Cybil is a war child—the result of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD