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Extract
In this house we often run out of water. The boy says that it’s the ghost who uses up the reserves in the cistern. He says it’s a ghost who died of thirst and that’s why it drinks all the water in the house.
Translated by Christina MacSweeney
Parallels
- The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon
- Possession by A S Byatt
- Maynard & Jennica by Rudolph Delson
Description
Faces in the Crowd
Valeria Luiselli
The twinned cities of Mexico City and New York form the braces for a delicate spider’s web of story, history, biography and autobiography, strung with glittering dewdrop fragments of prose. This is a slight, haunting book, where art and ordinary life seem equally fragile and equally vital.
