Photo Credit: Eri Takahashi

Girl Friends

/in , , /Kaori Ekuni, translated by Sharni Wilson
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Photo credit: Elisabeth Mohn

Sung’s Shop

/in , , /Karin Kalisa, translated by Johanna McCalmont

Berlin was one of the first cities I ever visited in Germany, and since then, I’ve been fascinated by its East/West history and the legacy of that period. I was immediately captivated by Sungs Laden because it touches on a less-known aspect of East German history.[…]

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Photo Credit Georges Seguin (Okki) — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 3.0

Four Short Stories From Soulfood Equatoriale

/in , , /Léonora Miano, translated by Margaret Morrison

The sap of the plantains stains your clothes, hard to get them clean afterwards. During the preparations, the rain continues to fall. You open the kitchen window. The smell of wet earth mingles with that of the fritters or the plantains cut into thin slices before being plunged in hot oil.[…]

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