How do you make sense of the hidden rifts and fractures in a country’s past? How do you read the warning signs? The Cartographer of Absences, by Mozambican writer Mia Couto (translated by David Brookshaw), unearths long-buried secrets of colonial-era atrocities. Geetanjali Shree’s Our City that Year (translated by Daisy Rockwell), explores the underground tensions—and sudden eruption of violence—between religious communities in India. Alexis Wright, one of Australia’s most visionary contemporary writers, uses the life of an Aboriginal activist in Tracker as a lens on her own country’s untold history. Moderated by Anderson Tepper, writer and curator of international literature at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh.
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