“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson
These authors use fracture and disruption to capture the experience of trauma and enact it in the text itself
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Muted facades and narrow streets frame the quiet dramas of an overlooked Tokyo community
An excerpt from BASTARDS by Nate Lippens
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“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson
An excerpt from BASTARDS by Nate Lippens
“Zulum” from INSHALLAH, MADONNA, INSHALLAH by Miljenko Jergović, co-translated and recommended by Ellen Elias-Bursać
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