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Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Lina Wolff
‘No one here is normal except you, and you’re not even from Spain.’
Once Was Dark
Josh Weil
‘When he opened his eyes, she was looking out at the rooster, the sun-blasted concrete, the railing thinned to brittle by the brightness.’
One More Last Stand
Callan Wink
‘It’s funny to think that we existed, us together, before either of our marriages.’
Open Water
Deb Olin Unferth
She had already imagined it all, so much so that when she finally did see him, she felt unable to speak.
Orion
Jeanette Winterson
‘Every 200,000 years or so, the individual stars within each constellation shift position. That is, they are shifting all the time, but more subtly than any tracker dog of ours can follow. One day, if the earth has not voluntarily opted out of the solar system, we will wake up to a new heaven whose dome will again confound us.’
Oval
Elvia Wilk
‘We’re trying to prove that it’s possible to live sustainably and not be such a freak about it.’
Poor Lucky Kolyvanova
Ludmila Ulitskaya
‘The red girls’ school stood opposite a grey boys’ school, built five years after it as if to proclaim the rational symmetry of the world.’
Reading Comprehension: Text No. 2
Alejandro Zambra
‘Which of the following famous phrases best reflects the meaning of the text?’
Scandal
A. N. Wilson
‘His father had visited a prostitute and had been a spy. It was quite obvious to Julian that this was true. He was almost pleased to read it, for it justified his sense, never admitted to himself before, that Daddy Spoilt Everything.’
Second Dispatches from Ambassador to Brazil, Earth
Juan Pablo Villalobos
‘Forget about football: queuing and stamping are Brazil’s national sports.’
Seltz
Carlos Yushimito
‘I thought I’d found the answer to many of life’s mysteries, but I had no words to share with the world.’
