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This is the Writer's Voice, New Fiction from The New Yorker.

I'm Deborah Treasman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Andrea Bionni read his story Constellation,

which was translated from the Italian by Jeffrey Brock, and appears in the June 15th, 2026 issue of the magazine.

Bayani, a winner of the Baguta Prize and the Strega Prize, among others, is the author

of ten books of fiction, including If You Kept a Record of S sins and every promise. His most recent novel,

The Anniversary, from which this story was adapted, is being translated into more than two

dozen languages and will be published in English in August. Now here's Andrea Bionni. Andrea Bayani.

Constellation When I think of the free time

my mother spent with my father

in our small town outside Turin,

this is the scene I usually picture.

She's on the couch, working through La Sittiman Enigmistica, a weekly word puzzle magazine,

while he reads a book. She looks bored. Her glasses have slipped down the bridge of her nose, where they remain out of carelessness

rather than to help her eyes focus.

She's waiting for him to finish reading and decide what to do with whatever time remains

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