![]() Since 2010 she has translated her work, including these thirteen stories, into English. Tidbeck began publishing in Swedish in 2002. “Beatrice” opens: “Franz Hiller, a physician, fell in love with an airship.” “Reindeer Mountain,” with “Cilla was twelve years old the summer Sara put on her great-grandmother’s wedding dress and disappeared up the mountain.” And “Cloudberry Jam” with “I made you in a tin can.” How could anyone not want to read on? Tidbeck establishes this peculiar tonality in her stories’ first sentences and then never falters. ![]() ![]() ISBN 9780985790400Īfter reading the singular stories in Swedish author Karin Tidbeck’s first collection, what lingers in the mind is their deadpan strangeness. ![]()
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