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The Last Place on Earth
Tracy Kidder
‘The living-room windows begin to reflect the lights on the plastic Christmas tree, and the view through those windows is fading, the woods growing thicker, the birches glowing in the dusk.’
The Fortune-Teller
Shiva Naipaul
‘While she may have given up counting those broken vows, she had not given up making them.’
Unleaving
Justin Mundhenk
‘She felt like she was stepping on someone’s knuckles. With each careful step, she heard the sound of breaking bones.’
Spider Lilies
Hiroko Oyamada
‘The breeze smelled of many things: autumn and earth, the green of the countryside, face powder and old age.’
Three Character Sketches
Mario Vargas Llosa
‘For Fataumata, and others like her, dying tragically is dying naturally.’
The Gourmet
John Lanchester
‘I have vivid memories of my one or two visits to my brother during his incarceration in various gulags.’
The Gorilla’s Apprentice
Billy Kahora
‘Real life was the thin couch he slept on at home. Real life was his mother screaming that he needed to face Real Life.’
A Hebrew Sibyl
Cynthia Ozick
‘And so began what I was to become. To all these things – the admonitions and the testimonies, the rites and the annunciations – I had easily acquiesced.’
