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Life and Breasts
Ludmila Ulitskaya
‘Death is here, by our side, and we can make no witty Nabokovian jokes about it.’
In the Village
Derek Walcott
‘I came up out of the subway and there were / people standing on the steps as if they knew / something I didn’t.’
A Thousand Splendid Stuns
Morwari Zafar
‘More important than anything else that fateful year was the life-defining transcendence of Peter Gabriel.’
Beachcombing
Lucy Wood
‘He was stamped darkly onto the wide stretch of sea like a single footprint.’
Mirage
Claire Vaye Watkins
‘He had a mind to surf through all crises and shortages and conflicts past and present.’
Poor Lucky Kolyvanova
Ludmila Ulitskaya
‘The red girls’ school stood opposite a grey boys’ school, built five years after it as if to proclaim the rational symmetry of the world.’
Tomorrow, upon Awakening
Antônio Xerxenesky
‘He more than anybody else needs to define his symbols for the year to com.’