Growing up in Albania in the ’80s, I saw so many people who had no present. But the future is behind us, unknown to us, we can’t foresee. For the Aymara people, the future, “qhipa pacha/timpu,” translates as “back” or “behind time” and the past, “nayra pacha/timpu,” as “front time,” meaning that the past always sits in front of us because we always think about where we come from, what we’ve done. In the Andes, there’s a group of people who speak the Aymara language and think of time so differently from the rest of us. The following is an excerpt from By Its Right Name by Ani Gjika, who won the Restless Books 2021 Prize for New Immigrant Writing.
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