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This book seeks to paint a portrait of Gaza through the eyes of its writers, as a city different to the one presented in the media. Gaza is a city like all cities by the sea, where people relax on the beach, where the streets have names and ...more
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Arkady Martine
“This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own.”
Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

Tamsyn Muir
“If anything it seemed to be gaining momentum, like a very boring avalanche.”
Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

R.F. Kuang
“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War
tags: war

“war was nothing more than an argument in which no one had landed on a better solution than killing each other.”
Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

Arkady Martine
“Nothing touched by Empire stays clean.”
Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

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