On Finding Soutbek

Karen Jennings, Finding Soutbek - Parts of the upper town now lay uninhabited, left to the rummaging of dogs and rats. In the scattered landscape these heaps took on a sense of permanence. - - Yet all around her the terrible noise of the living was continuing. - - Their hunger was not the same as those from the upper town; only the knowledge that they had been deprived, that they might have suffered had they been poor, drove them to such behaviour. - - He came to believe that history was not about dates and people. It was about...