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The Buzzard’s Egg
China Miéville
‘I can’t remember: did a young man destroy his miserable god, or did a god free its worshipper and take his blood and his bones?’
The Florida Motel
Kevin Canty
‘Suddenly she understood what she was doing here. She was among strangers, the place where Bill had chosen to spend his life.’
The Gentlest Village
Jesse Ball
‘You are learning – learning a great deal. It is too much for you, so your body bows out. Then you wake up and you can continue.’
The Instant of Passage
Mathias Énard
‘Praying for the unknown dead, for the vague remains of the existences of total strangers, was sadly abstract.’
The Intoxicated Years
Mariana Enríquez
‘They cried as if they weren’t to blame for any of it. We hated innocent people.’
The Landlady
Geling Yan
‘After all, they were landlady and tenant; what right did he have to meddle?’
The Middle Ages: Approaching the Question of a Terminal Date
David Szalay
‘What is left? What is he to wrap himself in, now that everything has floated off into space?’
The Tattoo
Maciej Milkowski
‘We missed our moment, reading the classics in semi-virtual travel agencies.’
The Wrong Square
Neel Mukherjee
‘Something as fundamental to intelligence as counting was eluding him.’
