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The Reader and Technology
Toby Litt
‘Literature isn’t alien to technology, literature is technological to begin with.’
A Gentle Madness
Humera Afridi
‘Pakistan is a nation of memory keepers. We feed our memories as if they are guests at tea, pay homage to them.’
My Mother, My Translator
Jaspreet Singh
‘Through that fuzzy mix of fiction/non-fiction she had told me the problematic stuff we avoid going near when we get together.’
Refugee Dreams
Peter Behrens
‘In his mind he is back in Frankfurt once more, trying to catch that last train across the frontier.’
Dad’s the Word
Soumya Bhattacharya
‘There is no escaping the fact that parenting involves treasuring those rare moments of solitude.’
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike
Edmund White
‘The freedom conferred by masks. Children and current wives cannot blame you for what your characters do and say.’
Brodsky’s Room and a Half
Valeria Luiselli
‘It’s enough to sit in silence for the duration of a lighted cigarette in order to be taken over by the life force flourishing among the graves.’
A Trip to Syria
David McConnell
‘Several years ago, a friend and I stayed at the one hotel set amid the ruins of Queen Zenobia’s oasis capital, Palmyra, in the Syrian desert.’
Leaving Afghanistan
Christopher Merrill
‘An Afghan saying – if you turn over a rock, you will find a poet.'
