Dreaming of Dead People John Killick of a paranoia and miserliness

of a paranoia and miserliness that gradually takes over Jane Chirp’s life and leads her to move to ever more cramped and dingy flats where she surrounds herself with her belongings like a besieged hermit

Najwa Binshatwan

and a chapter from his first novel (until now not translated)

Farzaneh Khojandi

the novel’s sections set in China reveal the struggles of rural Wuhan under a crumbling feudal regime

Dreaming of Dead People John Killick of a paranoia and miserlinessIn the middle of life although this is only thirty six and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her frustrations and her solitariness, the grief and the rapture: these are her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the medieval masks of Owl, signifying winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. In attendance are dreams of rustic places and once dear animals. But it is no ordinary procession, for her childhood comes