‘I was broke, and I was a nobody, but I was happy.’
‘Something as fundamental to intelligence as counting was eluding him.’
'Venkat was afraid of saying something wrong.'
‘This was the morning I discovered the anatomy of a hair.’ New fiction by Guadalupe Nettel, translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery.
‘On good days, he could believe that that was exactly what he appeared to be: pedestrian, a pedestrian, a walker, walking, going places, on the ups, possessing two healthy feet at least.’
