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Egypt 3
Mohammed Salah Rajeh
The Seventh Floor
allegory - Arab-Israeli - contemporary - religion - speculative

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Israel 4
Tasha Karluka
And Then — Nina Simone Began to Sing
despair - funny - money - Tel-Aviv - urban - witty

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Russia 6
Anton Chekhov
Romance with a Double Bass
allegory - classics - love - Russia - sexuality - witty

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Argentina 11
Martín Felipe Castagnet
The Next Soviet Union
alienation - Latin America - satire - technology - unrequited love

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Iraq 19
Samuel Shimon
Two Royalists in Quatorze Juillet (a chapter from “An Iraqi in Paris”)
arabic literature - colonialism - existentialism - lovers - political - sexuality

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Spain 9
Recaredo Veredas
My Father’s Ties
father and son - funny - irony - office life - psychological

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Spain 14
Margarita Leoz
What We’ve Become
childhood - female authors - funny - irony - revenge

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Argentina 16
Federico Falco
The Psychic Uncle
horror - kids-absurd - Latin America - suspense

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Tunisia 5
Kamal Riahi
Moscow
arabic literature - objectification - Russia - sexuality

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Russia 4
Teffi
The White Flower
coming of age - female authors - Russia - witty

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

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Spain 12
funny - journey - Latin America - love

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