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Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Secret Life of Monica Cartier

Cartier had been recruited by the ministry for state security ind high school. She was described as highly motivated and committed to the cause of socialism. Monica could barely process what was in the article. Scouldn't draw it into the circle of her imagination. So she made an appointment at the office that handled the starsy archives. Most of rolneck's cruelties, the way he had pressured her, the guilt he had made her feel, had served no useful purpose at all. Because katya had already been telling them everything. I was even more perverse than she had imagined. In a secret ceremony during the time that were in the band, the stasi had awarded

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