The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
"Varya is thirteen. New to her are three more inches of height and the dark patch of fur between her legs."
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Woman at 1,000 Degrees
Hallgrímur Helgason, trans. by Brian FitzGibbon
“I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade.”
The Woman in the Window
A. J. Finn
“My French leçon today, and Les Diaboliques tonight. A rat-bastard husband, his “little ruin” of a wife, a mistress, a murder, a vanished corpse.”
The Restless
Gerty Dambury (trans. Judith G. Miller)
“Let me tell you how the first suit the child’s father ever made got him involved with the communists, even if he didn’t plan it that way.”
The World Goes On
László Krasznahorkai (trans. by George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet, & John Batki)
“How lovely it would be, a world that we could end by organizing a series of lectures—anywhere in this departing world—and give it the general subtitle, “Lecture Series on Area Theory,” where one after another, as in a circus arena, lecturers from all parts of the world would talk about “area theory””
The Mannequin Makers
Craig Cliff
“My name is Gabriel Doig. I was born into a family of ships’ carvers on the banks of the River Clyde in Scotland. ”
The Brunist Day of Wrath
Robert Coover
“It is in such browbeating weather that West Condon prodigal son (there is an army of them) Georgie Lucci steps down off the bus from the city on his first return in nearly five years to the scene of his youthful indiscretions”
“Lagomorph”
Alexander MacLeod
“Some nights, when the rabbit and I are both down on the floor playing tug of war with his toy carrot, he will suddenly freeze in one position and stop everything, as if a great breakthrough has finally arrived.”
“The Murder of Santa Claus”
P. D. James
“If you’re an addict of detective fiction, you may have heard of me, Charles Mickledore.”
Sisters of the Cross
Alexei Remizov, Trans. by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy
“It was not because their duties brought them close together that Marakulin and Glotov were friends.”
In the Fall They Come Back
Robert Bausch
“Except for what happened with little George Meeker, my first year in the classroom went rather smoothly.”
Piano Tide
Kathleen Dean Moore
“Tick walked a circle around the new woman’s cargo. Somebody who knew knots had tied that tarp up—a single trucker’s hitch, no nonsense.”
The Enchanted Clock
Julia Kristeva trans. by Armine Kotin Mortimer
“My son X-rays me, entrails and bones. He knows what pain constricts my throat if someone happens to raise their voice.”
One Station Away
Olaf Olafsson
“I could hear the sea. That was perhaps an hour after I became paralyzed, although I couldn’t be sure as I soon lost track of time. ”
“At Last the Escalade”
Noy Holland
“Well worth it, well worth it, the last of the legendary glaciers and cell phone service besides. They have seen a wolf and bighorn sheep and a hundred cheeping pikas in the rocks and a pair of boxing marmots.”
They Know Not What They Do
Jussi Valtonen, trans. by Kristian London
"A man and a woman from a major corporation had visited Rebecca’s school: the same corporation that had underwritten the new wing of the gymnasium, which now bore the corporation’s name.”
Dandelions
Yasunari Kawabata, trans. Michael Emmerich
“Dandelions cover the banks of Ikuta River. They are an expression of the town’s character—Ikuta is like springtime, when the dandelions bloom. ”
The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian
E.F. Granell, trans. David Coulter
“A priest is only a priest, even if he knows Latin, which would be notable.”
Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters
Maria José Silveira, trans. Eric M. B. Becker
“It was easy to see at first glance that Lígia was a determined person with her own inner light.”
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