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by Nadine Gordimer (ed.) (2004) A collection of stories hand-picked by their world-renowned writers, inadvertently dealing with the subject of sex and death (but not directly with HIV/AIDS) in a myriad of genres.

by José Saramago (1991).

Here’s a gospel where Jesus is a very common human being without a priori divinity if confused, pessimistic and guilt-ridden, an unwilling “restive lamb that resists being taken to be sacrificed”. He is unsure of himself, plagued with nightmares and guilt passed down by his deceased father, aghast at the power he chanelled and at the inescapable covenant with the power-hungry God.