Nothing But Ghosts

Item: Nothing But Ghosts
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Judith Hermann

This collection of short stories is a showcase for the writer's poignant vignettes of relationships in trouble. The tipping points in communication breakdown between lovers, partners, friends and family are skilfully captured with heart rending accuracy.

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But sometimes she can see that his face is actually cold, an aggressive, challenging, determined and cold face: she can see it when he comes out of the water and when he is sleeping .... It is the coldness of a stranger, the coldness of someone she could spend a hundred thousand years with and yet never get to know. This is an ice-cold fact, a cold-blue fact. Irene had liked this Icelandic expression very much.

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