Hints and tips:
...The judges praised the novel’s “delicate artistry” and the way Alharthi drew readers into a “richly imagined community” — one that for many of us will have been completely unknown....
...We might, for example, deep inside be far more curious about how local supermarkets operate than in the legacy of Cervantes....
...Local publishers like quoting from Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, in which the eponymous hero visits a publisher in Barcelona who is printing an apocryphal version of Don Quixote; they discuss the merits...
...Some may find the elaborate prose – closer to Cervantes than to, say, (Nobel prizewinner) Robert Merton – annoying. But perhaps Cervantes is the right writer to emulate when tilting at windmills....
...On June 4 1989, soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army shot their way into Beijing – killing unknown numbers of citizens on their way – and cleared the students from the square....
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