The Book of Losman, the debut novel from K.E. Semmel follows Daniel Losman, an American living in Copenhagen, whose life is marked by solitude after his longtime girlfriend leaves him. He spends time with his three-year-old son, worrying the boy may have inherited his Tourette Syndrome. The hilarious and clever novel is slim and packs a punch on every page.
Semmel is a former Literary Translation Fellow from the National Endowment for the Arts whose own fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Ontario Review, Lithub, The Writer’s Chronicle, HuffPost, The Millions, The Southern Review, and The Washington Post. He has translated the works of Naja Marie Aidt, Karin Fossum, and Jussi Adler Olsen.
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