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Like Raif Efendi, the protagonist of Madonna in a Fur Coat, Ali was caught between two worlds—East and West—and struggled to reconcile these conflicting cultural identities.
“He demanded so little or his body, and yet it would not even afford him this.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“Everyone knew that the nicer a library was, the better the work you did within it.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“What you must realize, Alice, is that you cannot just take refuge in feminism when it suits you.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
“It was so humiliating the way she’d lingered, hoping for his attention—like a dog that didn’t know that it had been abandoned, that kept on coming back. He was not rude to her. In fact he was perfectly polite, wearing that classic Murdoch smile. He gave her the same kind attentiveness that he would to any stranger. But this hurt, for she had thought they were anything but.”
― Katabasis
― Katabasis
Alexandra’s 2025 Year in Books
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