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with his parents and brother when he was 12 years-old. The family then emigrated to the United States between 1970 and 1972 At the age of 17, Eprile then a recent arrival in the United States, took a writing class at college. He produced a South
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641:"Jewish book awards get facelift"
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859:21st-century American novelists
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543:10 Questions for Tony Eprile
726:WHY DID YOU MAKE ME BLACK?'
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605:"Truth and Reconciliation"
217:Notable Book of the Year.
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526:"Laughter and Forgetting"
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440:. Yale University Press.
365:The Persistence of Memory
223:The Persistence of Memory
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132:Tony Eprile was born in
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228:Koret Jewish Book Award
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417:"the ILANOT Review"
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193:Connecticut College
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909:South African Jews
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672:The New York Times
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548:. 15 February 2017
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265:Bennington College
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833:Categories
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373:References
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