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There was something intolerable in the expectation in that room, strained around Zachary’s absence, which could not be filled. The time when they might have been waiting for him to walk through the door was so recent, so close at hand, that it seemed vividly possible; they could imagine how he’d ma…

[...] Really he was a solitary thinker, not interested in most of his colleagues. The vision he had for the school – with children as thinkers and artists at its core – went needless to say against the grain of public policy on education. It went against the way the world worked. And unlike Zachary…

Four already seemed like a lot, but in actual fact we were merely a fraction of the horde of translators contracted by twenty-seven publishing houses around the world to translate this book. Detaljerna, published earlier that year, had been a runaway success and would go on to win the prestigious A…

[...] Birgitte wasn’t particularly adorable anymore, but everything that appealed to these men’s instincts to help, shore up, guide, and understand, was still there. I no longer lived at home and didn’t see her a lot during this period, but my sister was there and she told me about the men she bump…