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the lyrical language, how landscape and destiny intertwine, the complex bonds of community—but what impresses most is how vividly he enters the innermost thoughts of his characters, thus revealing their seemingly quiet existences brim with the profoundest questionings of how we should live our lives.
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This is what happened in Faha over the Christmas of 1962, in what became known in the parish as the time of the child.
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Like all failures of love, it was a question without answer, but, once Jude had thought of it, he could think of nothing else, trapped in the prison of all who have flawed fathers, unable to mend them, yet knowing they are the only ones they will have.
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In the long night she missed the mother she didn’t have, and the one she did.
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