A shame this translation did not pass to an attentive editor prior to publication. Mid-way through, I have seen the word "jasmine" spelled both with and without the "e" several times in the same story ("A Body"). In the story "Christmas Eve":

"I looked at the knife held was in my hand, balancing to find the perfect point..." (110). On the next page we treated to "...at such moments his face would take on a blissful expression of bliss that reduced me to tears." Me too. Is this a direct translation? Horrible. This book is less that 200 pages in length. ( )