Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura (2018)

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He’d hoped to stumble into something wilder, something that would change him completely. Something that would make him lose all concern for morals and ethics and the confused human condition. Something that would obliterate him and the life he had lived until now (17).

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Include Me Out by María Sonia Cristoff (2014), translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver (2020)

OneIf there is something she does not wish to cultivate at all it is a state of greater alertness. In fact, she has chosen this routine of walking home at the end of the week in order to make anything that might have happened over the previous ( Read more... )

The Half Life of Molly Pierce by Katrina Leno (2014)

Eight.He moves a hand. Continue ( Read more... )

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri (2014), translated by Morgan Giles (2019)I never carried any photos with me, but I was always surrounded by people, places, and times gone by. And as I retreated into the future, the only thing I could ever see was the past ( Read more... )

Acts of Infidelity by Lena Andersson (2014)

Chapter 1
Threesome was about a man trapped in an unhappy marriage who meets another woman but can’t bring himself to leave his wife. The play was not prophetic. Nothing is prophetic. What may look like a prediction is really just a heightened awareness of what has previously come to pass. What has ( Read more... )

Green Girl (P.S.) by Kate Zambreno (2014)

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armour at home.
- Jean Rhys, Good Morning, MidnightThe girls slinking up the aisles have a rehearsed quality to them, their purses positioned just so on their shoulders, their eyes downcast yet somehow watchful. They cannot escape this self-awareness. ( Read more... )

The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 5) by Tana French (2014)

Chapter 25Everyone knows a wife and kids tie you down. What people miss somehow is that mates, the proper kind, they do the same just as hard. Mates mean you’ve settled, made your bargain: this, wherever you are together, this is as far as you’re going, ever. This is your stop; ( Read more... )

Nobody Is Ever Missing: A Novel by Catherine Lacey (2014)Some people make us feel more human and some people make us feel less human and this is a fact as much as gravity is a fact and maybe there are ways to prove it, but the proof of it matters less than the existence of it (55 ( Read more... )

Nothing Holds Back the Night: A Novel by Delphine de Vigan (2014)More than any of them, Lucile was Georges’s daughter. She looked like her father, had his sense of humour, his look, his intonation. Liane wished she could have loved her better, reassured her, broken down the fortress of her silence. Instead, Lucile remained the mysterious child who ( Read more... )