TE23 Double Feature

The Year (novel excerpt) Tomas Espedal Translated from Norwegian by James Anderson feels the warmth of the sand and falls asleep. How long has he slept? When he awakes a creature is sitting on the sand staring at him it’s not an animal nothing he’s ever seen before and yet he recognizes the thing the eyes the expression it might be his own it’s as if he were looking at himself in water but this is something different the face is thinner

the mouth wider the body rounder the breast softer the neck long slender arms small hands she bends forward sniffs him he feels no fear only a potent new unease 123

Tomas Espedal