The Disinherited

...Caracera came to understand, implicitly, that the entire moviemaking process was about the mastery of gadgetry and that art, if it happened, would be at best on the sly.

from The Disinherited
by Han Ong
Picador, 2004

Murder in Belleville

There was something appealing about the quiet air of neglect, she thought. As if the buildings held together almost from force of habit.

from Murder in Belleville
by Cara Black
Soho Press, 2000

Death of a Nationalist

If he were a little brighter he might have turned into a Socialist, she thought.

from Death of a Nationalist
by Rebecca C. Pawel
Soho Press, 2003

Sleepwalking Land

• Clever is the sea which, instead of a fight, prefers to embrace the rock.

• I've learned curses that not even the Devil remembers.

from Sleepwalking Land
by Mia Couto
Serpent's Tail, 2006
translated by David Brookshaw