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The Grief of Strangers
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘Chinechelum said little as her mother drove her to the airport.’
Glitches
John Gregory Dunne
‘I prefer not to speculate about what might have happened if I had not taken the ECG.’
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Paul Auster
‘The single inhabitant of an asteroid that orbits around a tertiary moon of Pluto, visible only through the strongest telescope.’
Twenty-Eight Days in Baghdad
Nuha al-Radi
‘Rumsfeld says everything is improving day by day. I suggest he come live here for a couple of days and then say that.’
Trident
James Buchan
‘As many as thirty-five states in the world are thought to have the capacity (if not the wish) to build a nuclear weapon.’
Héctor Abad | First Sentence
Héctor Abad
‘Ever since this happened to me, I haven’t really believed in free will.’
Kashmir
James Buchan
‘I see in an instant what has brought people to the valley for four centuries.’
A Job on the Line
Desmond Barry
‘The atmosphere in the house was thick with my father's depression.’
Persist
Zaina Arafat
‘I grew obsessed with the place, thinking that getting to see it, to experience it, would make the pain of that fall go away.’
