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Estelle was thinking about another author now, one who almost a hundred years ago wrote that your children aren’t your children, they’re the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.
Fredrik Backman • Anxious People: The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series
I also dream of a new kind of narrator―a “fourth -person” one, who is not merely a grammatical construct of course, but who manages to encompass the perspective of each of the characters, as well as having the capacity to step beyond the horizon of each of them, who sees more and has a wider view, and who is able to ignore time. Oh yes, I think... See more
Nobel Lecture by Olga Tokarczuk
And where there is room for interpretation, there is always room for political persuasion.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
Monika Maron’s Animal Triste,
Hwang Bo-reum • Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: The heart-warming Korean sensation
“But she said, ‘No, that’s not it, Reiko. I’m not worried about that at all. I just don’t want anybody going inside me again. I just don’t want to be violated like that again – by anybody’.”
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
