Henning Koch

Henning Koch's writing started with screenplays. Between 2002 and 2007 he worked as a translator and dramaturge for Yellow Bird Films, makers of Henning Mankell's Wallander series for television/cinema in Scandinavia, Germany and the UK. In 2005, Koch moved to Sardinia, off the coast of Italy, where he spent three years writing the short story collection Love Doesn't Work and the novel The Maggot People (forthcoming September 2012). 

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Love Doesn't Work

Henning Koch

Release Date: January 11, 2011
ISBN: 978-0982631812

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Enduring her jet-set life in Sardinia, a woman has learnt to sublimate her erotic longings caused by her husband's impotence, until a visitor offers a more immediate solution.

A claustrophobic banker fears the destruction of his relationship when he discovers a yawning hole beneath the streets of Stockholm.

The arrival of a gorgeous Russian piano prodigy inspires a screenwriter to look beyond his treadmill London existence.

And while fixing a leaking toilet in the wilds of Sweden, Ingmar Bergman explains the predicament of lovers in a hostile world.

Love Doesn't Work offers classic storytelling with profound, startling insights into human desire and its shortfalls.  Inspired by the ancient Cathars, these seven tales present a vision of life as an inevitable struggle against ignorance, darkness and sexual confusion.  Devilish and playful in tone, they leave the reader with a sense of outraged satisfaction and delight.