There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything to me, take everything away, put me in prison, but I will know [her] when we are old.
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This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
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Birth: | 12th September, 1943 |
Nationality: | Canadian, Sri Lankan |
Profession: | Novelist |
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