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Reading Comprehension: Text No. 2
Alejandro Zambra
‘Which of the following famous phrases best reflects the meaning of the text?’
Last Day on Earth
Eric Puchner
‘Despite my efforts at denial the new reality of our lives was beginning to sink in.’
Dynamics in the Storm
Greg Jackson
‘You only have time to live your own life, and mine was falling apart.’
The Disappearing
Fatima Bhutto
‘I have gone to the forest to lie among the moss and sleep under a canopy of trees. I have gone to the forest to root among the soil and listen to the birds.’
Then
Mark Slouka
‘It was in January, I think. That weekend, more than any other, the thought of her leaving seemed impossible.’
The Fruit of My Woman
Han Kang
‘It was late May when I first saw the bruises on my wife’s body.’
Fiction by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith.
Click
Brian Evenson
‘It wasn’t that he didn’t have a name, only that he was having difficulty locating it.’
Bezoar
Guadalupe Nettel
‘This was the morning I discovered the anatomy of a hair.’ New fiction by Guadalupe Nettel, translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery.
