Zaynab

“A writer's prose is always a register of previous readings.”
― Álvaro Enrigue

“That was how people like you and I came to know of so much of the world, reading about it from people who despised us.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart

“I had to laugh, but remembered feeling the same sorrow when I was younger, and telling my mother, 'One day we'll all be dead and the streets will be empty. Who's going to sweep them?”
― Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China

“To the gringos, these twenty-seven Chiricahuas were an enemy army. What we had to offer them was a fitting death for their warriors and assimilation for their children, absorption into the particular Mexican fabric of sorrows and joys. What the Americans had to offer was a life of humiliation, but one in which their difference would be recognized.”
― Álvaro Enrigue, Now I Surrender