

Loved this short story collection. Unsettling, many unanswered questions, repetition in theme & variations. Untrustworthy friendships, circus performers, funerals, spooky homecomings. Solid translation. Beautiful non sequiturs, imitating leaps of thought. 2006, trans 2024
85 “Having experienced war at the age of nine and been forced to flee to a new land, her mother had a habit of assessing a room by estimating how many people could sleep there.”