Strangers We Know
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Strangers I Know
Author: Claudia Durastanti
language: en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date: 2022-02-01
A bold, contemporary and urgent novel from a renowned Italian writer that examines silence in different forms, immigration, family and social class.
Before We Were Strangers
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When Strangers Meet
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