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Kinder Than Solitude
Yiyun Li
‘Being let down was Celia’s fate; life never failed to bestow upon her pain and disappointment she had to suffer on everyone’s behalf, so that the world could go on being a good place, free from real calamities.’
Einstein in Bern
Alan Lightman
‘Einstein and Besso walk slowly down Speichergasse in the late afternoon.’
No Machine Could Do It
Eugene Lim
‘In the future we have to be as interesting to the AI as our pets are to us.’
If You Start Breathing
Thea Lim
‘Sharing her pain with other people meant that her pain belonged to her less, Joanne belonged to her less.’
Eddie-baby
Eddie Limonov
‘Usually taciturn and self-absorbed, on that day Eddie bombarded the teachers with witticisms and cheeky, caustic remarks, for which the French mistress, shaken, sent him out of the classroom.’
Final Fantasy III
Tao Lin
‘On the F train to Manhattan I emailed a friend in the UK. I said I couldn’t write my essay about Japan.’
Swimming Underwater
Merethe Lindstrøm
‘When I picture my childhood, it’s like I’m swimming underwater.’ Merethe Lindstrøm’s story is translated from the Norwegian by Marta Eidsvåg, and is the winner of Harvill Secker’s Young Translators’ Prize 2016.
Success
Adriana Lisboa
‘They hadn’t tried them yet but the girls both knew, from the adverts, that Hollywood cigarettes were awesome.’
That Year in Rishikesh
Adriana Lisboa
‘The pulp from her processing of the world was a mixture of past, present, dreams, imagination, films, books, newspaper articles, anything.’
Naugahyde
Gordon Lish
A story of ageing infidelity: ‘He would seek to remember and she would seek to remember – each succeeding a little differently from the other.’
