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Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel , translated by Susan Bernofsky, set in post-lockdown Berlin, is an absurd, dark, dreamlike narrative that meditates on warfare, religion, memory, migration, and belonging through the strange consciousness of a literary researcher, Patrik. A Celan scholar who self-identifies as “the patient,” Pat... See more
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Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
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Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet’s lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
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Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
The rain begins, not with torrid, dehumidifying power, but a slow, intermittent shower, dysuric.