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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 German Democracy

She would confirm her loyalty to the german democratic republic and agree to work with the ministry for state security. Most people would see it as their patriotic duty. She had no sense of the limits of his power, what he could realistically do to her. As he whined on, a bolus of dis gust rose in her throat all of it,. Just so a repressed little man could issue threats and shuffle papers at his desk. He pressed his call button and ordered the guards to take her to her cell.

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