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– quran, 100:1


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‘There’s this paradoxical nostalgia where even though yi suffered, yi miss it.’
Memoir by Graeme Armstrong.
‘She boils her sentences down to high-sucrose sweeties and calibrates her tone for maximum engagement.’
Fiction by Natasha Brown.
‘The monstrous years of my late teens lay lined up alongside the rest of my life like bullets in a gun.’
A story by Sophie Mackintosh.
‘Without waiting for me she removes her white shirt. Each button a piece of my own spine, undone.’
Fiction by K Patrick.
‘I followed him onto the dancefloor and he put his hands on my hips as if he’d known me for at least an hour.’
Fiction by Saba Sams.
Nadeem Aslam was born in Pakistan and now lives in England. He is the author of five novels, most recently The Golden Legend.
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‘It was almost involuntary: it felt like falling, or like rising in a dream.’
‘I loved—and continue to love—the pages of certain copies of the Qur’an.’
‘More than once the new dog was aggressive, a stab of fire, but I did not tell the grown-ups. I feared they would take him away.’
‘Pages five, six and seven make her into a Pakistani, but for the first four pages she is nothing but a human being.’
‘For me, narratives are always tied to and emerging from other narratives; there is no single beginning, no origin.’
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