{"product_id":"elsewhere-stories-from-small-town-europe","title":"Elsewhere: Stories from Small Town Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eFEATURING NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OLGA TOKARCZUK'S FIRST WORK IN ENGLISH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat do we mean by small town?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow has this innocuous term – one up from ‘village’, a couple down from ‘city’ – come to function as a pejorative?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePressed to describe what the phrase ‘small town’ conjures up, we’d be hard pushed to say anything positive: closed-minded; petty; provincial; parochial. On a broad European canvas, however, the rich traditions of short story writing challenge these preconceptions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories collected here are neither narrow-minded nor petty, nor do the minds of their protagonists contract to fit their environment. In Germany, a house-husband is slowly sent over the edge by his over-achieving neighbours. In the town of Odda in Norway, a middle-aged Morrissey fan has a matter of hours to find a girlfriend so his ailing mother can die in peace. It’s the small gestures – a white lie, the turning of a blind eye, a small kindness or a secret kept – that allow the characters of these communities to survive, to breathe easily within the seemingly tight strictures life there can impose. It’s how we do things round here...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003ePublished: USA, 2007\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003ePublisher: Comma Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003ePages: 128\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003eISBN 10: \u003c\/span\u003e1905583133\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0,0,0); font-family: 'Nunito Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"\u003eISBN 13: 9781905583133\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Maria Crossan (EDT)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52166247678218,"sku":null,"price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781905583133.jpg?v=1763979905","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/elsewhere-stories-from-small-town-europe","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}