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The Wig
Han Dong
‘Hu Yanjun had got his hands on a wig, and was trying it on in front of the mirror when his friend Wang Xinghai came to see him.’
Accident
Etgar Keret
’Thirty years I’m a cabbie,’ the small guy sitting behind the wheel tells me, ’thirty years and not one accident.’
Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes
M.J. Hyland
‘My father was sitting on my doorstep. He was wearing khaki shorts, his bare head was exposed to the full bore of the sun, and he was holding a pineapple.’
In Transit | New Voices
Dina Nayeri
‘Now it seemed that the rest of life was only a bright, eye-burning white expanse, like the sun-bleached concrete slabs just outside this building.’
Grand Rounds
Chris Adrian
‘I used to fall asleep in those same seats during lectures just like this one.’
The Cutting
Rose Tremain
‘I could not for too long delay my promise to Violet Bathurst to cut out her Cancer.’
Night
Alice Munro
‘I read books as usual, nobody knew there was a thing the matter with me.’
Fiction by Alice Munro.
My Heart
Semezdin Mehmedinović
‘Today, it seems, was the day I was meant to die.’ Translated from the Bosnian by Celia Hawkesworth.
The Former Mayor’s Ancient Daughter
Rachel Shihor
‘With us in the nursing home lives the ancient daughter of the former mayor’
The Third Dumpster
Gish Jen
‘It was about doing what sons were bound to do, which was not to pussyfoot around.’
Philanthropy
Suzanne Rivecca
‘They were all perpetually cowed by their own brutality, quivering and defeated by the measures they were forced to enact.’
