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The Encirclement
Tamas Dobozy
‘Teleki would gasp and sputter and grow red in the face and the audience would love it.’ Tamas Dobozy in Granta 107
From the Journals of Mahmoud Darwish 1941–2008
Mahmoud Darwish
‘I’m alive even though I feel no pain.’
The Rule of Tagame
Kenzaburō Ōe
‘Kogito was lying on the narrow army cot in his study, his ears enveloped in giant headphones, listening intently.’
Beginning, End | New Voices
Jessica Soffer
‘I walked behind you. You led the rallies. I lost my mother. You rubbed my back.’
Proximity People
Jonathan Lethem
‘People who unfriend their friends while friending their unfriends. People who do not acknowledge the person. Persons who are not personal.’
Two Tides
Eleanor Catton
‘The harbour at Mana was a converted mudflat, tightly elbowed and unlovely at any tide but high.’
American Subsidiary
William Pierce
‘He was typing up another proposal for robots that would replace human workers in an engine factory.’
Dragon Island | New Voices
Laura Fellowes
‘This is a wartime story. It is the spring of 1943 and Europe is burning; look down and see.’
Original Message
Austin Grossman
‘So tomorrow we might be on the same side. Unless you’re a triple agent, in which case we already were on the same side.’
The Silkworms
Janet Frame
‘Nothing has changed, Edgar said. What new event is written into their history? None. Where is their future? Nowhere. Are they against or for progress? It was dark when Edgar took the box outside down to the rubbish heap and sprinkled the dead moths upon the ashes of the diseased pawpaw.’ Janet Frame on an unsettling natural process.
