Tomas Moniz

by Fion Tse “Nightfall, Beyond Words” is extracted from a chapter of Lo Yu’s novel Yung Yung, originally written in Chinese and published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Yung Yung follows the narrator, Yin, through issues of language, identity, and love through the germination and dissolution of her romantic relationship with another woman, Yung. Yin and Yung meet on a dating app and sparks fly instantly, but Yung already has a girlfriend whom she’s unwilling to break up with.

after Mahler’s 5th Symphony, 2nd Movement – Stürmisch bewegt, mit größter Vehemenz The explosion had wrecked the whole street; only this one window was left undamaged. Clearly a shop window. The panes to the left and right, together with the door, had been blown in, as they had on all the other houses in the street. Just one grenade, he thought. And then he thought, Finish the job. With a quick jab of his rifle butt, he smashed in the remaining pane. It went down with a crash.

Lilach Galil’s 2009 novel, Betsilo (In its shadow), is a polyphonic novel told by the six main characters. Rona is a poet and a literary editor whose father, Michael, died when she was a child. Reading a memoir by a Holocaust survivor, Mr. Zimmerman, she feels that something is amiss and makes an appointment to meet with him. The excerpt is a description of their meeting. Unbeknownst to her, her boyfriend Idan is Eliezer’s grandson. This excerpt is at the core of the book.