Category: Book Review: Fiction
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The Weak Spot
“You couldn’t introduce her to a situation without her trying to convince you she had locked eyes with someone she recognised, trying to form a link, perhaps, to explain how she had gone from A to B in life.”
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The Thursday Murder Club
“After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children.”
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American Dirt
“That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn’t even want them.”
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The Strangers of Braamfontein
“Like they say; if a person goes and gets one whole measure of oil to eat only one yam, does he think the yam farmer who owns the land would put aside a whole mortar of palm fruit for oil?”
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The Left Hand of Darkness
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
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