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Cover illustration: Le Cirque by © Rawi Hage. Courtesy of the artist.
All photographs in the book are from the series Le Cirque © Rawi Hage. Courtesy of the artist. Previously published in the Art & Photography section of Granta 141: Canada, 9th November 2017.
“‘No Condition Is Permanent’: the Fictions of Rawi Hage and Ma Jian” Copyright © Madeleine Thien, 2019. All rights reserved.
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Madeleine Thien, “No Condition Is Permanent: The Fictions of Rawi Hage and Ma Jian”, © Madeleine Thien, 2019. All rights reserved.
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