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With her husband stranded in a war-torn country halfway around the world, a university professor – on whom the burden of managing their small family has suddenly fallen – tries to maintain order at home. Her young daughter seems not to mind, or even really notice, the father’s absence. But as the weeks go on, mounting pressure on the narrator to balance family and work begins to take a toll.

Das Dach ist unten. Oben ist der meiste Himmel blau. Kommt man durch den Eingang herein, ist der Ausgang da. Als Ronald Regan im Hotel Bauer residierte. Trank Whisky, Klaus Kinski Limonade; und zusammen setzten sie Kandinsky auseinander, was wäre, wenn die Türen im Hotel Bauer andersrum liefen.

The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in English, Mothers and Dogs features fifteen tales that show the emotional extremes in seemingly trivial details and quotidian situations: two brothers worry more about a dog locked in an apartment who hasn’t been fed than they do about their dying mother; when the lights go out on a racetrack, a man’s evening jog turns into a savage battle between runners; a daughter learns to draft business letters as an homage to her mother.