After the death of Helena, I decided to forgive all my enemies.
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‘What can damage us more? The blunt honesty of hatred, or the thwarted objective of reconciliation?’
After the death of Helena, I decided to forgive all my enemies.
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
ANDRÉS NEUMAN's Fracture was shortlisted for the Premio Dulce Chacón and the Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca, and is on the longlist for the Premio Gregor von Rizzori. His novel Traveller of the Century (2012) won the Alfaguara Prize and the National Critics Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Talking to Ourselves (2014) was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Neuman was named one of the original Bogotá39, and one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and now lives in Granada, Spain.
More about the author →Richard Gwyn translates from Spanish and Catalan and is the author of six books of poetry and two novels: The Colour of a Dog Running Away and Deep Hanging Out. His work has appeared in more than ten languages. A memoir, The Vagabond's Breakfast, will be published in May 2011.
More about the translator →‘Sometimes, in the midst of one of our arguments, he would say to me sadly, I understand you more if I understand less.’
‘And questions, more than heroes, are the material from which good stories are made.’
‘During the four hours they spent alone three times a week, Hans and Sophie alternated between books and bed, bed and books, exploring one another in words and reading one another’s bodies.’
‘Like him, the bathroom mirror had lost brightness over the years.’
‘We tangle and project, in exile; we make it up as we go along.’
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