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"The Loss of Sophie Mol stepped softly around the Ayemenem House like a quiet thing in socks. It hid in books and food. In Mammachi's violin case"...."It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined".

Anyone who has ever lost a family member will relate to this.

"One closes most books on 'international political economy' with a sigh"....Hopefully, the chapters that follow will provoke quite a different feeling. They suggest that the world is something that has been made; therefore, it can be remade".

"I had never been anywhere so burdened with memories yet also so charged with possibilities for the future, positive and negative, and each just as potent and probable as the other."

"Guilt is exile's eternal companion"

Forever obsessed with the memoirs of the exiled.

Forever wondering how the human mind lost its ability to produce writing of this caliber

Giving this mammoth a second chance