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“Your Captain fought back,” she told him. “He resisted, he wouldn’t let them take his identity. He died free.”
Adam Johnson • The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
After Kim Il-sung’s statement, the General Association of Korean Residents started a mass repatriation campaign in the guise of humanitarianism. The following year, 1959, the Japanese Red Cross Society and the Korean Red Cross Society secretly negotiated a “Return Agreement” in Calcutta. Four months later, the first shipload of returnees left the
... See moreMasaji Ishikawa • A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
You protected your highmarshal, he told himself. You’re a hero. But why was Amaram’s life worth more than those of his men? Kaladin served Amaram because of the honor he had shown. He let spearmen share his comfort in the warcenter during highstorms, a different squad each storm. He insisted that his men be well fed and well paid. He didn’t treat
... See moreBrandon Sanderson • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1)
【タコピーの原罪】高校生しずか、いいよね....に対するみんなの反応集
youtube.comFrom what he had gathered, she was Leader’s only daughter, had run away from Sakigake at age ten, had grown up in the household of a well-known scholar named Professor Ebisuno, and had written a novel entitled Air Chrysalis, which was reworked by Tengo Kawana and became a bestseller. But she was supposedly missing now—a missing person’s report had
... See moreHaruki Murakami • 1Q84 (Vintage International)
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?
Joseph Heller • Catch-22
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