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Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Refugees

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  • Adnan Afaqцитирует5 лет назад
    at strangers and acquaintances sometimes did
  • Adnan Afaqцитирует5 лет назад
    Smiling at your relatives never got you very far, but smiling
  • Heba Mohammadцитирует5 лет назад
    She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now she would do again tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that. She would read out loud, from the beginning. She would read with measured breath, to the very end. She would read as if every letter counted, page by page and word by word.
  • Heba Mohammadцитирует5 лет назад
    Yeah, right. Candid. It means being caught by surprise, like in a photograph or a film, when someone takes your picture and you’re not looking. Or it means someone who’s frank. Who’s honest and direct.
  • Heba Mohammadцитирует5 лет назад
    He rubbed the envelope between his fingers, unable to explain how he’d dreaded the letter’s arrival as much as he’d yearned for it.
  • Heba Mohammadцитирует5 лет назад
    He tried to forget what he’d discovered, how little other lives mattered to him when his own was at stake.
  • Heba Mohammadцитирует5 лет назад
    The dead move on,” he had said, coiled in his armchair, hands between his thighs. “But the living, we just stay here.”
  • Анна П.цитирует7 лет назад
    He’d never before bought flowers of any sort, preferring to surprise her with more enduring presents, like the books he gave her every now and again, on topics like how to make friends and influence people, or income tax preparation.
  • Анна П.цитирует7 лет назад
    For his part, Arthur had no idea. He had trouble distinguishing one nationality of Asian names from another. He was also afflicted with a related, and very common, astigmatism wherein all Asians appeared the same.
  • Christina Mbadieцитирует7 лет назад
    “You aren’t afraid of the things you believe in,” he said.
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