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Elena Mauli Shapiro

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Paris, France

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I was born in Paris, France, and moved to the United States at the age of 13. I’ve amassed several degrees in literature and writing around the San Francisco Bay Area (Stanford University, Mills College, UC Davis), where I still live with one scientist husband and two elderly half-Siamese cats who spend all day following sunbeams around the house. I am the author of two novels, 13 RUE THERESE and IN THE RED, both from Little, Brown. My short fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva, Five Chapters, The Farallon Review.

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Tuesday, September 11

I was born on a Tuesday, like America’s dying. It could have been a rebirth and maybe it will be one day, but for now the dying, the dying is taking a long time.

Human bodies hit the pavement, turning into fine red mist. Human bodies burn up inside, turning into a fine white ash. In the ash: pulverized metal, concrete, glass, file cabinets, computers, pictures of the family propped up on your d

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	13 rue Thérèse 3.02 avg rating — 1,629 ratings — published 2011 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Red 2.92 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era by Nick Mamatas, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author), Paul Tremblay (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 38 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ZYZZYVA No. 101 (Volume XXX, #2, Fall 2014) by Peter Rock (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Elena Mauli Shapiro (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Matt Sumell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	13 Rue Therese by Elena Mauli Shapiro (Goodreads Author), Jefferson Mays (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Meditations

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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914

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“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to convey meaning from one code to the other. The transfer is never safe, the meaning changes in the channel — becomes tinted, adulterated, absurd, stronger.”
― Elena Mauli Shapiro, 13 rue Thérèse

tags: interpretation, language, meaning, translation

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“...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and the other men--for the love of all that is good and true--they keep themselves together because they have to. They are afraid but they are not cowards.”
― Elena Mauli Shapiro, 13, rue Thérèse

tags: first-world-war, france, great-war, trenches, war

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“Si il y a des sorcières, cetta fille-là en est une.”
― Elena Mauli Shapiro, 13 rue Thérèse

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