Dear God, Don’t Look Down
Cindi T. Mkhwananzi
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Philani A. Nyoni
A Zimbabwean story from Jo’burg, South Africa
Broken hearts
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A Lebanese-Canadian story - To Mona Ahmed Seif and Wafa Ali Mustafa
Milk Shakes and Daddies
Private
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Bebang Siy
A story from Manila, Philippines. Translated from Filipino into English by Ken Ishikawa.
Molar
Mark White
A Puerto Rican man in Michigan talks about loss and shame experienced whilst pursuing a doctoral degree in North Carolina
Railroad to the Sun
Private
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Stefan Markovski
A short story from Macedonia
Stupid yet still madly brilliant
Edouard Caupeil
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Edouard Caupeil
In his impressive debut novel "Soleil à coudre" (A Sun to be Sewn), Jean D'Amérique tells, in powerful language, of precarious circumstances, and of a childhood that finds validation not only through this language
A cruelly gentle dance of ghosts
Yeseul Jeon
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Han Kang
"We Do Not Part", the new novel by the recently awarded Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, tells of transgenerational trauma, a tender female friendship and a reunion with a mother. And a kind of hope
A Hindu festival called Christmas
Axel Timo Purr
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Kiran Nagarkar, 2018
Encounters between a non-practising Hindu and Roman Catholicism
A touching nostalgia
Jakob Wierzba
Jörg Schieke's poems in "Silverman schickt mich" (Silverman sends me) captivate with their irresolvable character, but are also a systematic poetic exploration of the legacies of the GDR
Confession of a Killing
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A short story from Bangladesh – translated from Bangla into English by Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Still Today
Christoph Rütimann
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Zsuzsanna Gahse
Family trees are an endlessly interesting subject for many, but a look at the different language families is equally as informative
We were all sleeping
Basso Cannarsa
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Paul Lynch
In his Booker Prize-winning "Prophet Song", Paul Lynch succeeds in transforming our fragile political present into a bleak vision more relevant than many political treatises
Forgotten endings
Gillian Henry
What do we remember if not islands? In literature, film and real life too. And it's not only the narrative that matters.
Horror, comfort and hope
Cindy Nick
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Christoph Nick
More and more people fear that humanity is facing the collapse of civilization due to climate change and other crises. Some books can help us to better understand what may be in store for us
Every day, I leave behind a bird
Nora Rupp
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Souhaib Ayoub
A story about wounds of identity in Lebanon and in exile
On Not Reading Rizal
Private
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Caroline S. Hau
How Misunderstanding is Essential to the Longevity of Two Filipino Literary Masterpieces
Journey into the heart of a toxic relationship
Gustav Bergman / Rowohlt
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Lina Wolff
In "Der Teufelsgriff" (The Devil's Grip) Lina Wolff masterfully tells the story of an "amour fou" between a Swedish woman and an Italian man in Florence