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Roar (excerpt)
Inga Ābele
Inga Abele was born in 1972 in
Riga. She graduated from the
Latvian Academy of Culture,
Theatre and TV in the Drama
Department in 2001. She has
published stories, poetry and
plays widely. Translations of her
books have been published in
Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark,
France, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and the US. Her short
story “Ants and Bumblebees” was included in the Best
European Fiction anthology in 2010.
The novel
Roar
is expected to be featured in the
We.
Latvia, the 20th Century
series. This is its English-
language debut.
Translated from Latvian by Kaija Straumanis.