Elina Alter is a writer and translator. Her work appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, the Paris Review, the New England Review and elsewhere. She is the editor of Circumference, a journal of translation and international culture.
‘Into the carrot-coloured bag, alongside my clothes, I put the box with Mama’s urn.’
An excerpt from Oksana Vasyakina’s Wound, translated from the Russian by Elina Alter.
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