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Mich Vraa is the Danish author of HOPE, whose English translation by Lindy Falk van Rooyen won the PEN/Heim Grant in 2018.
On this island, rain falls as swiftly as the dark, as if some meteorological spirit had spoken a magic word; a prompter in the wings commands rain! and it gushes down.