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Madeleine Thien: ‘I can read a book over years, and not feel I have to finish it’

The Canadian writer wishes she’d written Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and was moved by Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places

The book I am currently reading
Fathers and Sons. Turgenev’s novel of generational politics, violence and the desire for change was published more than 150 years ago, but feels inescapably of our time.

The book that changed my life
Red Dust, Ma Jian’s long walk across China to try to know, forgive and yet confront this world.

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from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2IihSAR

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