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The Bonfire and the Chessboard
Matías Néspolo
‘I’m not a snob, it’s just that down here we take chess seriously.’
Olingiris
Samanta Schweblin
‘Sometimes she lied. She didn’t do it maliciously; she did it to pass the time.’
Ways of Going Home
Alejandro Zambra
‘It was hard for me to understand how someone could live alone.’
A Few Words on the Life Cycle of Frogs
Patricio Pron
‘I wasn’t going to abandon the dream of literature, I was going to keep dreaming.’
The Witch
Kseniya Melnik
‘They hide in the hollows of the heart, warming themselves in the downy scarf of the child’s soul, leaking poisons of old hurt.’
Leila in the Wilderness
Nadeem Aslam
‘It was almost involuntary: it felt like falling, or like rising in a dream.’
Butt and Bhatti
Mohammad Hanif
‘Teddy is one of those people who are only articulate when they talk about cricket.’
A Beheading
Mohsin Hamid
‘The words are just dribbling out of my mouth. I can’t stop them. They’re like tears.’
The Dog of Ṭeṭvāl
Saadat Hasan Manto
‘For some time now, the two sides had been entrenched in their positions on the front.’
