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Preserves for Life
Olga Tokarczuk
‘He came upon one under the kitchen sink labelled ‘Shoestrings in vinegar, 2004’, and that should have alarmed him.’
Flying Towards a Country of Rain
Wang Yin
‘Paper phantoms sit beside me / watching a two-hour movie.’
German Quasi-Story of Ulrika Thöus
Salvador Espriu
‘For hidden though they may be – and it is incontrovertible that they are – sooner or later the testicles will have to appear.’
Animals
Michel Laub
‘I only stopped playing with him when he began biting the fingers of anyone who tried to pet him.’
From the Past Comes the Storms
Andrés Felipe Solano
‘During the hottest months, the thermometer settles in at 100 degrees like a nonagenarian in a rocker – no one can make it move.’
The Hotel Capital
Olga Tokarczuk
‘At the same time I take off my exotic language, my strange name, my sense of humour, my face lines, my taste for food not appreciated here, my memory of small events—and I stand naked in this pink and white uniform as if emerging from the sea mist.’
A question of identity
Dubravka Ugrešić
‘One of the first things a child learns is the sentiment: My country is… And so begins the homeland briefing that lasts from the cradle to the grave.’
Eight Trains
Alberto Olmos
‘To go is always to go somewhere; returning, you return to nowhere. That’s the way it is.’
Returning to the Hague
Georgi Tenev
‘‘Shall I tell you, son,’ I ask him, ‘exactly what I’m guilty of?’’
Filling Up With Sugar
Yuten Sawanishi
‘The vagina was the first part of her mother’s body that turned to sugar.’
