Ariane Koch reads from her novel The Imposition

»The guest has sucked the oxygen from the fish. While I dig the graves – even though there isn't much to be dug due to their bodies being so small –, dig into the blanket of snow, he remains seated at the kitchen table, which I never agreed to share and tries to pick up tangerine slices with paint brush fingers covered in fur.«

Ariane Koch reads from her debut novel The Imposition, a novel of wonderfully wilful narration that asks questions about the known and the unknown, about origin and home, about assimilation and integration, about privacy and hospitality. A debut whose delight in fabulating and fantasising is captivating.


Narrator: Thorbjörn Björnsson

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