Zoli

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Much of this novel was written and esearched while I was a fellow at the orothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. It is dedicated to all of those at the library and to librarians everywhere: thank you.

If you keep quiet, you die. If you speak, you die. So speak and die.

—Tahar Djaout

But in our century, when only evil and indifference are limitless, we cannot afford unnecessary questions; rather, we need to defend ourselves with whatever there is to hand of certainty. I know that you remember….

—John BergerAND OUR FACES, MY HEART, BRIEF AS PHOTOS

To get back before dark is the art of going.

—Wendell BerryTHE COLLECTED POEMS OF WENDELL BERRY I957-I982

Slovakia

2003

HE DRIVES ALONGSIDE the smal streambed, and the terrible shitscape looms up by increments—upturned buckets by the bend in the river, a broken baby carriage in the weeds, a petrol drum leaking out a dried tongue of rust, the carcass of a fridge in the brambles.

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