5/27/2023 0 Comments The golden notebook review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A friend of mine goes there when she wants anything. This isn't an official thing, you know, but there they are. You know, not far from here is a road where refugees of all kinds line the roads, and people go there to pick up a plumber or carpenter or something. But everyone is running from drought or flood or civil war. Q: The descriptions of the refugees Dann encounters reminded me of your book about visiting Afghanistan in the '80s, seeing the refugees fleeing into Peshawar.Ī: You know, it never occurred to me until afterwards that everybody in these books is a refugee. People are dying and their water is drying up and the trees are dead, and it's absolutely horrible. My son John and a coffee farmer had been there. See, the whole of "Mara & Dann" takes place during a drought, which I had just been watching in Africa. I don't find it hard to imagine landscapes. I realized it would have to be in that semi-drowned world. But I was interested in Dann, so I wanted to write a sequel. ![]() You see, I wrote a book called "Mara & Dann," and I really became concerned with poor Dann. But you have resisted this instinct in the past. Q: It's tempting to read this novel - as with all speculative fiction - as a parable of our times. ![]()
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