Cozy Stories
After her novels, Marente de Moor now ventures into the art of the short story, which do not fall short in intensity and imagination compared to her well-known work. The people she describes in their daily lives all yearn for intimacy but do not easily find it with others. Against the backdrop of their cozy interiors and habits, this absence stands out tragically, and only imagination offers solace.
A happily married man suddenly turns out to possess special gifts; a young woman spies on her neighbors through Ebay, and two retired sailors search for a missing island without their wives. How cozy is it really in these tragicomic tales?
Awards
“The discomfort she displays in her stories is of an unprecedented narrative accuracy.”
- Jury report J.M.A. Biesheuvel Prize
“What a delightful bundle of misery she serves the reader. What an intimately enjoyable sadness. For less than what De Moor generously offers page after page, sentence after sentence, I would have cheered.”
- Vrij Nederland
“De Moor can write around the drama in a virtuoso way.”
- NRC Handelsblad
Translations
Turkish
Bulgarian