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Days of Awe
A.M. Homes
Read the title story from AM Homes' dazzling new collection of short stories, Days of Awe, available now from Granta Books.
Ersatz Panda
Lucy Ives
‘My greatest desire has always been to take people literally. It’s not the same as wanting to trust them, but it’s related.’
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Wells Tower
‘Thanks to the easy wind bellying our sails, we crossed fast and sighted the island six days early.’
Fathers and Sons
Benjamin Markovits
‘For a while it wasn’t clear how good he would become, and then it was. He went up the rankings, stopped, and started going down.’
Felix Culpa
Jeremy Gavron
‘This writer does not write among these men who are here because they have lost the plot, lost the thread of their own lives.’
Fishes and Dragons
Undinė Radzevičiūtė
An excerpt from ‘Fishes and Dragons’ a Lithuanian literary chinoiserie that addresses the interpretation by a European of Qing dynasty culture and art.
Florianópolis
Paulo Scott
‘Even in a year in which Brazilians are not that excited about the competition, once the ref whistles and the match kicks off, an entire nation is frozen, hypnotised before their television screens. It’s the great truce, the great anaesthetic.’
Ghillie’s Mum
Lynda Clark
‘Social services gave Mum a whole list of conditions she had to adhere to. She wasn’t allowed to be animals anymore, under any circumstances, or they would take Ghillie away from her.’
Gooseen
Nuala O’Connor
Nuala O’Connor’s short story about Nora Barnacle, and her first meetings with James Joyce.