The Fall
A lawyer in an Amsterdam bar turns confession into control, using guilt to build a private court no listener can leave untouched.
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At Night All Blood is Black
A failed mercy killing repeated on strangers as restitution, ending in an act the army's procedure cannot absorb.
Kingfisher
A debut novel follows a writer’s affair with an older woman, turning desire, illness and care into a question of who controls the record.
Arendal
One night failing to get home. Thirty years failing to get anywhere further.
Lázár
A Hungarian family learns to survive through concealment, then enters a century that turns concealment into policy.
Palimpsest
A memoir organises a life as social evidence, placing wit, rank and sexual candour under the pressure of what the argument cannot contain: the grief that outlasts every performance of detachment.
Hot Fruit
Orphanage origins, family objects, meals and fables shape lives built around beginnings that cannot be securely known.
She Who Remains
Measuring the cost of remaining alive when survival requires self-erasure.
Exhibition
A photographer watches her own images sell as a dead woman's self-portraits. The question is which of them made the work.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
A year of pharmaceutical sleep staged as transformation, ending in confirmation that conscious life happens to other people.
Elena Knows
A mother crosses Buenos Aires after her daughter is found dead in a church belfry, certain that rain proves what the police refuse to see.
The South
A failing farm in southern Malaysia. A queer attraction formed across unequal access to exit. The South asks who can leave, and at what cost.