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Watching Over Her: A Novel

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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

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He took his cigarettes, the remaining fifth of that silly bitch’s vodka, and went out to the garage. He sat in the car. He imagined himself out driving, the windscreen running with stars. Aloud he said, “A week ago I was happy.” A ...more

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“Lotte, I asked without beating around the bush, what decade would you choose—the sixties, the seventies, or the eighties? She fell silent for a moment and gave the best answer that can be given to such a question: I’d like to be twelve years old in each of them. That would be my answer, too.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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“Sometimes we don’t stop to think how some historical event only appears to be more distant than it actually is. When I was born, the Second World War was a mere twenty-three years in the past, but it has always seemed like a completely different epoch to me.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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“You asked me,” the prophet said, “what good an elegy is when sung by a man who cannot remember. But all men cannot remember.” His voice was clear and lucid. “An elegy is good merely because it is sung. And when its words are lost, it is still good, because it is sung. And when its melody, too, has been washed away, it is still good, because it was once sung.” He rose to his feet and cast his blind eyes over the men sitting round the fire. “To sing at all is to labor, and it is only by labor that men living recall the shadows of men passed. This is what it means to remember.” At this the prophet turned and was swallowed up by the darkness.”
― Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

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