– Čudno je, nemoj mi reći da nije. Mislila sam da ću te nazvati i da ćeš mi izrecitirati pet, deset, čak i petnaest zgrada na popisu najdražih stvari kakav svi imamo.
– Svi imamo popise najdražih stvari?
– Da, a što, ti nemaš?
– I čega ima na tvom popisu?
– Želiš čuti čega ima?
– Da.
– Dobro. Na prvom je mjestu čokolada, na drugom šetnja bez kišobrana po upornoj kišici koja te bocka u lice. Znaš o kakvoj ti kišici govorim, zar ne?
– Mislim da da – odgovori Pablo, ali ona mu svejedno objasni:
– Ona za koju se čini da baca kose vodene iglice. E, takva kišica – reče i zastane trenutak prije nego što će nastaviti: – Treće ću mjesto preskočiti, a na četvrtom je...
– Zašto preskačeš treće mjesto? – prekine je Pablo.
– Ne poznajemo se tako dobro – odgovori ona. – Kad se bolje upoznamo, reći ću ti.
Jarine pukotine, Claudia Piñeiro
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Sci-fi...
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Star Rover by Jack London
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Realistic Fiction...
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Girls At War by Chinua Achebe
Another Country by James Baldwin
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
The Plague by Albert Camus
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
My Year of Sleep and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Pina by Titaua Peu
Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter
Native Son by Richard Wright
Psychological/Horror...
Flowers In the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
The Between by Tananarive Due
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Piercing by Ryu Murakami
Foe by lain Reid
Cows by Matthew Stokoe
Feminist Literature...
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
Empty Houses by Brenda Navarro
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Meridian by Alice Walker
Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
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“Vengeful Creditor” by Chinua Achebe
“The Guest” by Albert Camus
“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
“Désirée’s Baby” by Kate Chopin
“Investigations of a Dog” by Franz Kafka
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville
“Galatea” by Madeline Miller
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor
“Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx
“The Body Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson
Anthologies...
Konundrum by Franz Kafka
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Plays...
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
An Enemy of the People by Arthur Miller
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson
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