{"product_id":"night-train-a-l-snijders-9780811228565","title":"Night Train","description":"\u003cp\u003eGorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extols Snijders's \"straightforward approach to storytelling, his modesty and his thoughtfulness.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e Selected from many hundreds in the original Dutch, the stories gathered here-humorous, or bizarre, or comfortingly homely-are something like daybook entries, novels-in-brief, philosophical meditations, or events recreated from life, but-inhabiting the borderland between fiction and reality-might best be described as autobiographical mini-fables.\n\u003cbr\u003e This morning at 11:30, in the full sun, I go up into the hayloft where I haven't been for years. I climb over boxes and shelving, and open the door. A frightened owl flies straight at me, dead quiet, as quiet as a shadow can fly, I look into his eyes-he's a large owl, it's not strange that I'm frightened too, we frighten each other. I myself thought that owls never move in the daytime. What the owl thinks about me, I don't know.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A. L. Snijders","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43175051657459,"sku":"9780811228565","price":24.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780811228565.jpg?v=1662069963","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/night-train-a-l-snijders-9780811228565","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}