Mungo raised his hand to wave up at the window but Mo-Maw glowered down at him. He must have seen her face harden, or perhaps he thought waving was childish, because he aborted the gesture and grasped a fistful of air, which made him seem like a drowning man. In his baggy shorts and his […]

Kaikki olivat odottaneet ja silloin tällöin varovasti kyselleet, tulisiko Elsa mukaan poroaidalle. Nástegallun kuoleman jälkeen hän ei ollut käynyt kertaakaan ruokkimassa poroja. Kun Elsa lopulta pani sukset jalkaan sen päivän jälkeisenä aamuna, jona he olivat turhaan odotelleet poliisia, isä ja äiti katsahtivat toisiinsa, mutta eivät sanoneet mitään. “Taidan hiihtää aidalle”, Elsa sanoi. “Etkö tulisi myöhemmin […]

Nukuin kolme päivää ja kolme yötä dividivipuiden kaitojen, lehdettömien rankojen alla. Minua pakotti kaikkialta, olin rasituksesta ja väsymyksestä murskana. Kävin vajalla juomassa kanisterin hanasta vettä ja palasin varjoon makaamaan. Nukuin kaiket päivät, silloinkin kun olin hereillä. Valo oli ainoa keino tietää, kuinka kauan aikaa Salveiron lähdöstä oli kulunut. Yöllä näin hänestä unta. Visitación herätti minut, […]

It was unreal to have your city turned inside and out. He felt unreal those days of the riots when his streets were made strange by violence. Despite what America saw on the news, only a fraction of the community had picked up bricks and bats and kerosene. The devastation had been nothing compared to […]

This is how the ambush begins: with the slow rise of a monarch’s shadow from a tall mountain peak. With the emperor’s faint image caught in the whir and snap of a camera, reflected in the glint of a lens to ricochet against fog and hill. As Kidane’s army, new recruits and seasoned fighters, prepares […]

Her body hung off the side of the bed, and by the odd angle Shuggie could tell the drink had spun her all night like a Catherine wheel. He turned her head to the side to stop her choking on her rising boak. Then he placed the mop bucket near the bed and gently unzipped […]

at times like these Amma misses Dominique, who long ago absconded to America they should be sharing her breakthrough career moment togetherthey met in the eighties at an audition for a feature film set in a women’s prison (what else?)both were disillusioned at being put up for such parts as a slave, servant, prostitute, nanny […]