{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDagerman, Stig:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStig Dagerman\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the most prominent Swedish authors of the twentieth century. His two titles with Godine are \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSleet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWedding Worries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verba Mundi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420235632914,"sku":"9781567924466","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a35c6b6f-9c89-4b80-a89a-926085fbe475.jpg?v=1729492042","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sleet-selected-stories-9781567924466","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}