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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.’
The Island
Jack Underwood
‘She draws from her mind the image of a giant steel girder, pictures it smashing through the wall of the bar, obliterating everything, legs and arms reaching and waving.’
Sorry to Disturb You
Jack Underwood
The only thing scarier than ghosts are the ghosts working at a call center.
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.
To the Ocean
Deb Olin Unferth
‘At the desk they said they encouraged guests not to walk, but she was determined’
The Lens Factory
John Updike
‘It made him feel lopsided, this sense of being plucked at by nervousness and dread.’
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
‘The map of the old horizon was like being haunted by a grotesque fairy tale, something that when voiced came out not as words but as sounds in the aftermath of an atrocity.’
A Child’s Book of Death and Dying
Abraham Verghese
‘A fine morning mist had rolled down over Addis Ababa from the Entoto mountains, leaving a sheen on the lawn between the apartment buildings'.
Epistle to the New Age
Gore Vidal
‘I’m Bishop of Macedonia, as you will know in time if you are not lucky enough to be in time already.’
Dispatches from Ambassador to Brazil, Earth
Juan Pablo Villalobos
‘In Brazil it is crucial not to be Argentinian. Add that to our Earth mission’s proceedings manual under the topic ‘Cultural Affairs’.’
