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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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R.F. Kuang
“They're monsters! I know! I was at Golyn Nis! I lay amid the corpses for days! But you-" Kitay swallowed, choking on his words. "You turned around and did the exact same thing. Civilians. Innocents. Children, Rin. You just buried an entire country and you don't feel a thing.”
R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

Arkady Martine
“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles—this they name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

Arkady Martine
“Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued.”
Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace
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Tamsyn Muir
“She was like, Oh, my God, you’re drinking, aren’t you. You’re on amphetamines. You are on coke. You are on amphetamines and coke. I was all, Yeah…Coke Zero. She didn’t laugh. I laughed.
He said, I guess I’ve always thought any pun was automatically funny.”
Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

Arkady Martine
“The motion of a swift is an impenetrable language; as incomprehensible to me as the thoughts of a flower when it opens its petals at dawn, without memory or mind. A coherent logic and a dance, but not one I can shape within myself. All my attempts are approximation. One cannot render meaning in language one finds meaningless; nevertheless I know there is a design, a speaking, a world just on the other side of shadow, untouchable but nonetheless real. Three years since I came home from Ebrekt, and I still dream of the swifts, running: in dreams, sometimes I understand them.”
Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

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