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Viola Di Grado
Viola Di Grado was born in Catania, Italy. She now lives and studies in London. Her first novel, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, won the 2011 Campiello First Novel Award and was a finalist for Italy's most prestigious literary prize, The Strega. This is an extract from her second novel, Hollow Heart, published in June by Europa Editions.

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Hollow Heart

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June 2015

Viola Di Grado

TR. Antony Shugaar

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June 2015

2011   I. In 2011 the world ended: I killed myself.   On July 23, at 3:29 in the afternoon, my death set out...

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Issue No. 7

On a Decline in British Fiction

Jennifer Hodgson

Patricia Waugh

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Issue No. 7

‘The special fate of the novel,’ Frank Kermode has written, ‘is always to be dying.’ In Britain, the terminal...

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February 2011

Red Shirts in Thailand

Sam Brown

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February 2011

The closest I had ever come to a protest was in 2003, in Bangkok, when I tried and failed...

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October 2014

The Trace

Forrest Gander

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October 2014

 La Esmeralda, Mexico   She knocked on the bathroom door.   ‘Can I come in to shower?’   ‘En...

 

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