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Our Lady of the Nile

Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be moulded into respectable citizens. In ...

Rhine Journey

A Cat, A Man, and Two Women

'Considering all I've sacrificed, is it too much to ask for one little cat in return?'Shinako has...

Winter in Sokcho

A young woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse on the border between South and North...

In the Distance

This lyrical western about loneliness and companionship follows legendary giant 'the Hawk' as he ...

The Pachinko Parlour

It is summer in Tokyo. The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the...

Real Life

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years ...

The Little Virtues

An extraordinary collection in which Ginzburg masterfully takes minor subjects such as shoes, mea...

Green Water, Green Sky

Kick the Latch

Based on transcribed interviews with a former racehorse trainer from Iowa, this is fiction that i...

Vladivostok Circus

Nathalie arrives at the circus where she is to design the costumes for a trio of artists who perf...

Filthy Animals

In these linked stories, young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of s...