In their Absence
Published on 25. January 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
126 pages
978-93-83868-59-9 (ISBN)
Description
What do you do when somebody walks out of the door and never returns? How do two young parents cope when their toddler disappears from a busy cafe? What happens when life is so unbearable that your only option is to disappear?
IN THEIR ABSENCE is a powerful dissection of what it means to go missing. This compelling debut explores the human complexities behind the headlines and statistics to reveal unsettling truths about what it is to live in the shadow of absence. These stories lay bare the agony of unknowing for those left behind. And they show us just how easily a human life can disappear.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
143 gr
ISBN-13
978-93-83868-59-9 (9789383868599)
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Hannah Stevens is a writer from the UK, currently based in Taiwan. She is co-director of Wind&Bones Books. Hannah has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Leicester, and her first short story collection, In their Absence was published in 2021. She is currently working on her next collection, On the Bodies of Strangers, for which she was shortlisted for the W&A Working Class Writers' Prize 2022. Hannah has been writer in residence at the Sofia Literature and Translation House, and also at the Taiwan Literature Base.