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Earshot
Literature, Translation Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) Literature, Translation Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef)

Earshot

“​​Day after day, I kept turning up the volume of the music, but it only seemed further and further away. After a few months, it had disappeared completely.”

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After
Literature, Translation Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) Literature, Translation Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore)

After

“I ran through the school gates and jumped on my bike without looking back, five kilometers down this road more familiar than even my mother’s voice, and which was suddenly evasive, distant, like a laminated picture under a transparent film.”

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Hornets
Literature, Translation K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil) Literature, Translation K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil)

Hornets

“Hornets are trying to live too, making their nests. Humans have inside them envy and cruelty and pride and so on and hornets, well, they have a bit of poison.”

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Flowers
Literature, Translation Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor) Literature, Translation Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor)

Flowers

“Neither the strange currents of love nor water on the verge of thirst — nothing in this world can compare to the pleasure offered by observing this flower.”

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