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  • Am Boden

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    A story about eternity. « A fully glued-on carpet is an uncompromising rejection of the future, a denial of death. »

  • Trouble at work and home while my son is abroad

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    A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »

  • The void that fills the void

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    Relics, and the places devoted to their worship, dotted the map of Europe and the Middle East. Saints, like today’s celebrities, were both omnipresent and faraway, once-vulnerable people who became something more than human.

  • Beyond thalassophobia

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    German vice-chancellor Robert Habeck has more than twenty books to his name. It is tempting to read his fiction for glimpses of Green political futures, and his literary criticism for similar clues. How experimental can a literary politician be?

  • By misadventure

    By misadventure

    A short story about vertigo from the author of Utopia Avenue, Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green. « Possibly a dare, or a rite of passage, hung in the air. Remember their age: most late teenagers are immortal. »