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The River Potudan
Andrei Platonov
‘Grass had grown back on the trodden-down dirt tracks of the civil war, because the war had stopped.’
Chatwin Revisited
Paul Theroux
‘He was such a darter he seldom stayed still long enough for anyone to sum him up.’
Living Goddess
Isabella Tree
‘I longed to know what she was thinking, what she did all day when she wasn’t performing rituals.’
The Golden Goat to Communist Ratio
Miroslav Penkov
‘Few people can pinpoint where Bulgaria is on the map. Some people might tell you they can, but you shouldn’t believe them.’
Dutch Harbor Nights
Jim Ruland
‘When one of the fishermen starts belting out ‘All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Out Tonight’, it feels like a prophecy come to life.’
The Defeated
Jonny Steinberg
‘Peter Mitchell died on a frontier, not so much between black and white, or between the landed and the landless, as between the past and the future.’
Garibaldi
Jeffrey Rotter
‘He chopped his way down North La Salle, pared the night air as he strolled along West Eugenie, peeled and julienned until at last he’d reached the dogleg at Sedgwick and Menomonee.’
The Many Voices of Africa
John Ryle
‘This is worth remembering: if it were not for Africa we would not be here at all.’
Emergency Room
Eugene Richards
‘I saw cuts, burns, broken limbs, heart attacks, and then, what's inside the human body.’
God and Me
Lucretia Stewart
‘It’s almost impossible to describe how it feels to believe in God. There really aren’t words elevated enough to explain it.’
Six Snapshots of Partition
John Siddique
‘He hands me my inheritance: a box of conversations. Fragments of memory, blank spaces, things which there are no words for.’
