Brenda Shaughnessy

‘Bakamonotako felt she didn’t need all eight of her appendages. Four would do.’

David Treuer

‘When he stepped into the cage he was doing battle with a disease. The disease was the feeling of powerlessness that takes hold of even the most powerful.’

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Rebecca Solnit

‘It was like trying to go back to before the earthquake, to before knowledge.’

Tanya Rey

‘Desire was a slapping, bone-chilling wind the likes of which did not exist this close to the equator.’

Bernard Quiriny

‘I started working for the Bishop of San Julián in 1939, not long after the death of my husband.’

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David Peace

‘At last, at last. His first steps, on Chinese soil.’

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Andrea Stuart

‘My curiosity about lesbianism was an accomplice of my feminism: a path that allowed me to be sexual and free.’

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Andrés Felipe Solano

‘A perfect impostor.’

Sigrid Rausing

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Saša Stanišić

Here, more die than are born. There’s a refrigerator at the bottom of the lake. The ferryman is dead. No one is coming to take his place.

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Joseph Roth

Darcey Steinke

‘I had a new persona I’d been planning to introduce the first day of school: a girl wise beyond her years who was not at all nerdy or spastic or prone to crying jags.’

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Norman Rush

‘I nursed a precocious rage at the stratagems society was employing to keep me from seeing naked women.’

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Mary Ruefle

‘Red sadness never appears sad . . . it appears in flashes of passion, anger, fear, inspiration and courage, in dark unsellable visions; it is an upside down penny concealed beneath a tea cosy.’