Theory of Shadows
Paolo Maurensig, Trans. by Anne Milano Appel
“Once again I wake up in the dead of night, smothered by the late August heat, and, finding myself lying in a bed at this modest hotel in Estoril, I am overcome by anxiety.”
“Once again I wake up in the dead of night, smothered by the late August heat, and, finding myself lying in a bed at this modest hotel in Estoril, I am overcome by anxiety.”
“I’d never actually eaten at Su Casa Siempre, but I’d passed by it a hundred times and more.”
“Upon my arrival at the facility, I was asked what I hoped to get out of my time there and how I planned to make myself useful.”
"Janna and Stu's house was the second in a row of four Georgian terraces, elegant sandstone buildings with high ceilings and multi-pane windows."