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Blazing Sun

Tatiana Salem Levy

‘It’s never easy to trade one love for another.’

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The Father

Kirsty Gunn

‘They never had people who could be fathers here before.’

In The Tunnel

John Wray

‘It was a question of not thinking about what you were doing.’

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from Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues

Ronald Sukenick

‘when rising expectations hit the upcoming decline hell was going to break loose it was already starting to break loose’

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The White Hole of Bombay

Nicholas Shakespeare

‘If you like people who hate each other, it’s paradise.’

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The Gentlest Village

Jesse Ball

‘You are learning – learning a great deal. It is too much for you, so your body bows out. Then you wake up and you can continue.’

A Clean Marriage

Sayaka Murata

‘Frequency of sex since marriage: zero.’ Sayaka Murata on a sexless marriage and the ‘Clean Breeder’ technique for pleasureless reproduction.

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Crow Fair

Thomas McGuane

‘You’re in a different world when your own mother doesn’t recognize you, or thinks you’re the stranger who gave her a hickey.’

The Moon and Back

Jessica Thummel

‘John Wayne Durler had always needed something to run from.’

The Love Machine

Julia Elliott

‘Beatrice was my first love. The dark contours of her delicate skeleton, the glowing flesh made translucent by my X-ray gaze, drove me crazy.’

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Destiny

Tim Parks

‘Destiny: there are those who still believe this word has meaning’.

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America

Chinelo Okparanta

‘It is a reluctant kind of disregard that stems from a feeling of shame.’

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Put Not Thy Trust In Chariots

Jonathan Tel

'David had nothing against Arabs personally.This despite the fact he was religious (he wore a blue-and-white kippa which had been knitted by his wife, Devorah, as an engagement present.'

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Mr Bones

Paul Auster

‘Mr Bones knew that Willy wasn't long for this world’.