Another Country | The New Yorker
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Geneva, 1959
I couldn’t seem to get hold of the language that everyone else was using so casually.
June 3, 2019
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Hard Seat
Ah, the hubris of the young English speaker whose knowledge of Chinese consisted, in my case, of being able to count to ten.
June 3, 2019
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Stonehenge
In their attractive, polished faces, I saw that Stonehenge was as familiar to them as having a gun held to my face was to me.
June 3, 2019
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Hereafter, Faraway
My eternal scene takes place in a faraway country, the one in which I was born and of which I have no memory.
June 3, 2019