‘I want to tell you everything,’ he said. ‘You’ll understand.’


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‘My name is Javier Cercas, just like you.’
‘I want to tell you everything,’ he said. ‘You’ll understand.’
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‘Globalisation is incomplete: money can go anywhere, but laws cannot.’
Oliver Bullough on one of Britain’s most contested outposts: the British Virgin Islands.
‘You discover during your very first lessons that the problem of singing better involves overcoming many other problems you had not ever imagined.’
A new story from Lydia Davis.
‘She began to count; it was easier this way, counting, because she would not have to remember how she felt.’
An excerpt from Ukamaka Olisakwe’s Ogadinma.
‘Like any desert, I learn myself by what’s desired of me—
and I am demoned by those desires.’
From Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz.
Javier Cercas is the author of three novels: Soldiers of Salamis, which won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, The Speed of Light and The Tenant & The Motive. ‘Agememnon’s Truth’ is taken from the collection La verdad de Agamenón: crónicas, artículos, ensayos y un cuento.
More about the author →Anne McLean has translated writings by, among others, Julio Cortázar, Tomás Eloy Martínez and Carmen Martín Gaite. Her translations of Soldiers and Salamis, The Speed of Light and The Tenant & The Motive by Javier Cercas are published by Bloomsbury.
More about the translator →‘The great pleasure of archive work lies in searching for these secrets known and unknown.’
‘As I began to flip through a literary magazine, I was stopped by a photograph of myself as a young girl, standing beside my college professor.’
‘In the place where I grew up there were horses, thighs moving like nudity under their fur’
‘This is not the story of my life, at least not the story of all of it, but it is the story of my father.’
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