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expanded on the idea, saying the book "offers a vivid personal portrait of life in the Darfur region of Sudan before the catastrophe," and "the violence the author recounts is harrowing."
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or your grandparents, or your village? (…) So it doesn't feel like thousands of miles away in a different culture in a place we don't understand".
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