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How long ago was that? Last month? A hundred years? They had walked into a darkened palace for a few hours. Luxurious like the depths of a mystic Egyptian tomb. When they emerged everything had changed.
Home was to be escaped from. Some stepped into dark theaters to watch pictures of horses riding across ridges. A lone figure on a mesa peered down across bare flatlands toward a distant blaze …
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Fun is a serious thing for Eleanor Catton: Novels are meant to give pleasure, and it’s precisely through this pleasure—through their ironies and set pieces, their feints and revelations—that they do their most serious work.
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The Bible in Gĩkũyũ, another part of my culture, was a translation of a series of translations, English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Translation…
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