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Reversals

September 2008

Heading South

By Dany Laferrière

At the age of twelve I realized that I could do whatever I wanted with women.

Translated from French by Tanyika Carey

Farewell to the Queue

By Vladimir Sorokin

But enough about bygone days. Here we are—in the new, post-Communist era:

Translated from Russian by Jamey Gambrell

Episode #18 of “Joseph and His Brothers”

By Karim Zaimović

The world is a vast tapestry, and everything in it happens at random.

Translated from Bosnian by Ellen Elias-Bursać

The Model

And there she stood, with all her limbs exposed, wearing only a slip.

Translated from Serbian by John K. Cox

From “The Eternal Son”

By Cristovão Tezza

The most brutal morning of his life started with interrupted sleep.

Translated from Portuguese by Alison Entrekin

Luís Paulo Neto

By Carlos Eduardo de Magalhães

When Elisângela threw the box out, with all the authority of a woman who wears the pants, he didn’t really care.

Translated from Portuguese by Anthony Doyle

Before a Birth

By Zhang Shaomin

She smells the grass, the crops

Translated from Chinese by Berlin Fang

Home Town

No matter how rich, how famous you are

Translated from Chinese by Berlin Fang

Memory of My Yellow Hometown

Ten hundred miles I am apart

Translated from Chinese by Berlin Fang

Village and Me

By Zhang Shaomin

Many years away from the village / The village still lives in me

Translated from Chinese by Berlin Fang

Six Pots of Hot Water

By Zhang Shaomin

When I didn’t have a cent to my name / He lent me his money

Translated from Chinese by Berlin Fang

Justice Unbalanced

By Machado de Assis

Such were my scruples that I voted to acquit all but two of the defendants.

Translated from Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers

At Dusk: Afterglow

You could see an afterglow / A glory that you should not miss

Translated from Chinese by Berlin Fang