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On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“The only thing that mattered was that I did my best to make sure everyone else came back alive.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Piotr Tarczynkski, a twenty-six-year-old factory clerk, had been ill for some weeks before he was mobilised. But when he informed the commanding officer of his artillery battery that he was ailing, the colonel responded with a brisk patriotic speech, “and told me he was sure that once I found myself in the saddle I would feel much better.”
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He turns. “Nichts,” he says. Nothing.
Anthony Doerr • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
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