What We Talk about, When We Talk about Love Anna Kavan and the themes of aroha

and the themes of aroha (love)

Each story appears in the original Japanese alongside an expert English translation

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What We Talk about, When We Talk about Love Anna Kavan and the themes of arohaThis powerful collection of stories, set in the mid West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s. One of Americas most original, truest voices Salman Rushdie