![]() ![]() Many authors like their characters to play coy, to circumlocute their way around their motives and desires. As one of them puts it, "Life can be strange sometimes, and knowing it can be doesn't seem to make it any less so." They're lonely and dissatisfied, uneasy riders on the edge of self-awareness. The men and women in Moshfegh's stories are desperate, although they're unsure for what. Sehnsucht is a familiar feeling to the characters in Ottessa Moshfegh's stunning short story collection, Homesick for Another World. ![]() It's sometimes translated as "longing," but it carries a series of specific connotations, among them, a yearning for a faraway land that may or may not actually exist. But there's a grain of truth to it - take Sehnsucht, a German term that's hard to explain in English. It's become a common joke that the Germans have a word for everything (and that many of them are comically long and impossible to pronounce). ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Homesick for Another World Author Ottessa Moshfegh ![]()
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