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Year of the Monkey
Fan Wu
‘I stood in front of the roller coaster, whose winding tracks looked like intestines in a demon's stomach.’
Hawk
Joy Williams
‘As regards to life it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us.’
The Last Thing We Need
Claire Vaye Watkins
‘I think there will be lightning tonight; the air has that feel.’
A Lovely and Terrible Thing
Chris Womersley
‘For a moment I could not speak. I looked off into the bleak distance, then at this man, and there was something about the sad shake of his head and the way his hair flapped about on his scalp that filled me with unreasonable warmth.’
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Lina Wolff
‘No one here is normal except you, and you’re not even from Spain.’
Tomorrow, upon Awakening
Antônio Xerxenesky
‘He more than anybody else needs to define his symbols for the year to com.’
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.’
Wheels of Progress
Gemini Wahhaj
‘Now Bangladesh survives only on aid, on other people feeding its people.’