“I was always asleep. Even when I was awake, I was asleep.” Night and Night’s Travelers The first story follows Shibami, a young woman grieving the death of […]
Japanese literature
The Memory Police
“The island was shrouded in mist that morning, and the air was thick with the scent of the sea.” The novel follows an unnamed novelist living on an […]
French literature
The Violin of Auschwitz
“Music is the only thing that can make people forget, even for a moment, the horror of this place.” Chapter 1: The Violin Maker The story begins in […]
American literature
Walk Two Moons
“Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” Walk Two Moons follows 13-year-old Salamanca “Sal” Tree Hiddle as she embarks on a cross-country road […]
English literature
The Acid House
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” — Robert Burns (epigraph often associated with Irvine Welsh’s themes) The Granton Star Cause The first story […]