For Allison, Isabella, John Michael, and Christian

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


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