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The Valley of Unknowing

Name: The Valley of Unknowing
ISBN: 0393239330

“Remarkable…Superbly anchored in place and time…[A] brilliant, evocative and accurate novel.”―The Times (London) In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, author of a single world-famous novel written tw

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Philip Sington (2)

“Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.”

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“We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.”

— Philip Sington, books.google.com

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