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Stimme und Atem
Out of Breath, Out of Mind

A bilingual German-English book of stories
Palm Art Press, Berlin, 2019
https://www.palmartpress.com/en/p/stimme-und-atem

Excerpted in The Yale Review

“Peter Wortsman has the voice of a symphony orchestra that starts out softly, but soon builds to a crescendo that leaves no reader unmoved.”

Deborah Feldman, author of Unorthodox and Überbitten

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“Born in the shadow of the flames of the World War II generation, Peter Wortsman is a master of short prose. Though a native New Yorker, he is essentially a European. His prose harkens back to that of such masters as Dino Buzzati, Clarice Lispector, Juan Rulfo, Tonino Guerra or Paul Bowles. Wortsman’s short stories are breathtakingly astonishing: his take on the unbearable lightness of being reveals the inescapable banality of evil.”

Julia Kissina, author of Frühling auf dem Mond and Elephantinas Moskauer Jahre

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“…his engaging stories find the tantalizing complexity and humor in life’s touchstone moments.”

Publishers Weekly

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“Wortsman proves to be an astute observer […] prose of pregnant black humor […]

Der Tagesspiegel

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“One has the feeling, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud or Professor Herzog from Saul Bellow’s novel Herzog walked here.”

Bruno Laberthier, Faust Kultur

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