The Glimmer by Shazea Quraishi Dani Spinosa ” - PBS Translation Selector

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This epic narrative expels a prophetic energy: meditative and frenzied

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The Glimmer by Shazea Quraishi Dani Spinosa ” - PBS Translation SelectorThe Glimmer is a meditation on the time span of life illuminated by many voices. In an artists colony in Mexico, a taxidermist tends animals in their after life, contemplating what remains of us after death. Among the artists she encounters are a painter of miniatures, a war photographer, a light artist, a ghazal singer, and dancers from Tanzteater Wuppertal, as they reflect on the impulse to make work and meaning in a world where value is