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USA 33
Louisa May Alcott
The Brothers
American culture - American literature - class-gap - classics - death - history - war

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USA 8
Gordon Haber
Services
grief - realism - religion - war

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Sweden 7
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
An Attempt at Nuclear Physics
absurd - love - marriage - mystery - relationships - writing

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UK 31
Arthur Conan Doyle
The “Gloria Scott”
adventures - classics - detective - Great Britain - history

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Austria 17
Arthur Schnitzler
The Death of a Bachelor
affair - betrayal - classics - manhood

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USA 14
Lore Segal
Reverse Bug
history - holocaust - immigration - surreal - WWII

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Tunisia 5
Kamal Riahi
Insurrection – A chapter from “The Gorilla”
arabic literature - contemporary - history - insurrection - political

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Palestine 8
Emile Habiby
Mandelbaum Gate
Arab-Israeli - arabic literature - history - political - realism

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France 7
Marcel Schwob
The Sans-Gueule
alienation - death - realism - violence - war

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UK 10
Brian Stableford
Mortimer Gray’s History of Death
alternative history - contemplative - death - history - philosophy - sci-fi - speculative

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USA 25
Stephen Vincent Benét
The Curfew Tolls
alternative history - classics - exile - funny - witty

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Algeria 6
Habib Sayah
Chaim and Me (A chapter from novel)
arabic literature - childhood - colonialism - coming of age - racism

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