"Notable among the least renowned voices are Icelander Krist í n Eir í ksd ó ttir, who contributes a rigorously cold-blooded story of family bereavement; Bla ž e Minevski, who shows that the spirit of formal playfulness is alive in Macedonia with a puzzle of a story about a superstitious scientist; and Turkey's Ersan Ü ldes, in whose offering a disgruntled translator "tampers" with texts to the extent of altering them completely."