Abu Dhabi
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300 short stories: story 292
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Grasshopper and The Bell Cricket” author: Yasunari Kawabata year: 1980s (?) where: bedroom, Abu Dhabi note: Kawabata was the first Japanese person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. a line: “Even if they remembered forever that Fujio had given her the cricket and Kiyoko had accepted it, not even in dreams would Fujio…
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300 short stories: story 290
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “Espantos de Agosto” author: Gabriel García Marquez year: 1980 (October) where: Al Reem Island note: Contains the beautiful word passementerie. a line: “Llegamos a Arezzo un poco antes del medio día, y perdimos más de dos horas buscando el castillo renacentista que el escritor venezolano Miguel Otero Silva había comprado en aquel recodo idílico de la campiña toscana.”…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 