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“I’ll tell you. When I was studying at the university, I was always surrounded by these young men being knowledgeable.” She laughed again, a chain of exhalations. “And it was intimidating. I felt I was less than they were. They were men after all—and who was I?”
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
On the one hand the scene was hilarious: the manager bullied by his staff; the priestly Pianon helplessly aroused by the loud, ribald female crowd around him. Shay has always amused herself by envisioning him as the arid scholar Casaubon from Middlemarch, transplanted to the tropics and engrossed not in the Key to All Mythologies, but in an endless
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classical ghazal by Ustad Sarahang.
Khaled Hosseini • The Kite Runner
was great hatred, the great Seventies hatred.
Anna Burns • Milkman
seemed ravenous.
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
subservient
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
cherub
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
‘What does a cock do with his life other than eat, drink and fuck?’
Hanan Al-Shaykh • One Thousand and One Nights
lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket.