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The Mother of All Sins

Hanan al-Shaykh

‘Loving life is the mother of all sins.’

Artichoke

Angélica Freitas

‘amelia, the real woman, / ran away with the bearded lady’

Bezoar

Guadalupe Nettel

‘This was the morning I discovered the anatomy of a hair.’ New fiction by Guadalupe Nettel, translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery.

To Zagreb

Yoko Tawada

‘You didn’t know where you wanted to end up, had never considered how much time you had left.’