{"product_id":"sleet-selected-stories-9781567924466","title":"Sleet: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA selection of stories from Sweden's greatest post-war writer. \"Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion.\"--Graham Greene \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This collection includes a number of new translations, never before published in English, unified by the theme of the loss of innocence. Often narrated from a child's perspective, the stories give voice to receptiveness and joy tinged with longing and loneliness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice McDermott writes in the preface to this edition, \"An imagination that appeals to an unreasonable degree of sympathy is precisely what makes Dagerman's fiction so evocative. Evocative not, as one might expect, of despair, or bleakness, or existential angst, but of compassion, fellow-feeling, even love.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStig Dagerman's fearless, moving stories have been compared to the best short fiction of such luminaries as James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, and Raymond Carver. You'll find yourself holding your breath in wonder as you read, grateful to Dagerman for the gift of these stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once remote and intimate in tone, these works by one of the great twentieth-century writers come fully to life in a remarkable translation by Steven Hartman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verba Mundi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781567924466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/09\/2015 pg. 42\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stig Dagerman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41352504705205,"sku":"9781567924466","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_038778b9-6dba-4b0e-8be4-e00d49338642.jpg?v=1637034311","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sleet-selected-stories-9781567924466","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}