{"product_id":"unformed-landscape-isbn-9781590512265","title":"Unformed Landscape","description":"\u003ci\u003eUnformed Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e begins in a small village on a fjord in the Finnmark, on the northeastern  coast of Norway, where the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie  covered in snow and darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer  and winter, and between people.  Here, a sensitive young woman like Kathrine finds  few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half Sami (an indigenous people), Kathrine  works for the customs office inspecting the fishing boats arriving regularly in the  harbor. She is in her late 20s, has a son from an early marriage, and has drifted  into a second loveless marriage to a man whose cold and dominating conventionality  forms a bold stroke through the unformed landscape of her life. After she makes a  discovery about her husband that deeply wounds her, Kathrine cuts loose from her  moorings and her confusion and sets off in search of herself.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Her journey begins  aboard a ship headed south, taking her below the Arctic Circle for the first time  in her life. Kathrine makes her way to France and has the bittersweet experience  of a love affair that flares and dies quickly, her starved senses rewarded by the  shimmering beauty of Paris. Through a series of poignant encounters, Kathrine is  led to the richer life she was meant to have and is brave enough to claim.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Using  simple words strung together in a melodic alphabet, Peter Stamm introduces us, through  a series of intimate sketches, to the heart of an unforgettable woman. Her story  speaks eloquently about solitude, the fragility of love, lost illusions, and self-discovery.\u003cb\u003eThe New Republic Online \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eChloë Schama \u003cbr\u003eAs the title of his novel \u003ci\u003eUnformed Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2005) and his collection of short stories \u003ci\u003eStrange Gardens and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2006) imply, Swiss author Peter Stamm's characters are deeply affected by their surroundings. The Norwegian fishing village where Katharine, the central character in \u003ci\u003eUnformed Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e, resides is a gray place, enlivened only by her increasingly complicated affairs and fantasies of life elsewhere. Like the landscapes of his novels, Stamm's prose is spare and graceful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Unformed Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of minimalism but with deep undercurrents...\"—\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Stamm\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Sweet Indifference of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo the Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAgnes\u003c\/i\u003e, and the short-story collections \u003ci\u003eWe’re Flying\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Strange Gardens and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. His award-winning books have been translated into more than forty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. He lives in Switzerland.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e has translated the work of Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Peter Stephan Jungk, and many others. He is the author of several books of poems and a book of essays, \u003ci\u003eBehind the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century German Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2012 he was awarded the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida and London.","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302626250981,"sku":"NP9781590512265","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590512265.jpg?v=1767743247","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/unformed-landscape-isbn-9781590512265","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}