Full Description
The history of walls - as a way to keep people in or out - is also the history of people managing to get around, over and under them. From the Berlin Wall and the Mexico-US border, to the barbed wire fences of Bangladesh's refugee camps, the short stories in this anthology explore the barriers that have sought to divide communities and nations, and their traumatic effects on people's lives and histories.
At a time when more walls are being built than are being brought down, All Walls Collapse brings together writing from across national, ethnic and linguistic borders, challenging the political impulse to separate and segregate, and celebrating the role of literature in traversing division.
Contents
Foreword vii
Philippe Sands
Introduction ix
Will Forrester & Sarah Cleave
Translucency 1
Paulo Scott
Translated by Daniel Hahn
These Days 11
Geetanjali Shree
Translated by Daisy Rockwell
The Gap 23
Maya Abu Al-Hayat
Translated by Yasmine Seale
Collateral Damage 29
Zahra El Hasnaoui Ahmed
Translated by Dorothy Odartey-Wellington
What the Cat Passed On 39
Kyung-Sook Shin
Translated by Anton Hur
This Side of the Wall 53
Juan Pablo Villalobos
Translated by Rosalind Harvey
The Fence 65
Krisztina Tóth
Translated by Peter Sherwood
Reunited 77
Muyesser Abdul'ehed
Translated by Munawwar Abdulla
Brandy Sour 89
Constantia Soteriou
Translated by Lina Protopapa
Between Two Infernos 107
Rezuwan Khan
Translated by Hla Hla Win
Mother's MacGuffin 115
Larissa Boehning
Translated by Lyn Marven
