
Memory of Departure
Hannah Sterenberg
Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 1987.
“All right, I am afraid. … I’ve always been afraid. I find the thought of traveling to another place about which I know nothing, and where I know nobody terrifying. I always have found it terrifying…What is out there that is worth such risks?”
—Hassan From Memory of Depture
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