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About Her and the Memories That Belong to Her
Mieko Kawakami
‘If I were to forget, then it would be the same as it never having existed at all.’
Accident
Etgar Keret
’Thirty years I’m a cabbie,’ the small guy sitting behind the wheel tells me, ’thirty years and not one accident.’
After Helena
Andrés Neuman
‘What can damage us more? The blunt honesty of hatred, or the thwarted objective of reconciliation?’
Agnes of Iowa
Lorrie Moore
‘Through college she had been a feminist – more or less. She shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.’
All the Caged Things
Chinelo Okparanta
‘All that thought of home gave the girl a sickly feeling, the longing of something so out of reach, something she wasn’t even sure she could any longer truly remember.’
Always the Same Snow and Always the Same Uncle
Herta Müller
‘Who knows: what I write I must eat, what I don’t write – eats me.’
Amateur Dramatics
Jonathan Lee
‘I heard the news from a nurse with a piece of tinsel tied around her waist: my father had become a hypochondriac.’
American Girl and Boy from Shobrakheit
Noor Naga
‘Question: is romance just a father who never carried you to bed carrying you, at last, to bed?’
American Journal
Christine Montalbetti
‘All those appetizing vessels exposed and available, O how delightfully vulnerable they are, it brings a tear to the eye.’
An Amateur Spy In Arabia
Norman Lewis
‘In the 1930s I wanted to travel and I wanted to write. In 1935, I published my first book—about a journey to Spain’.