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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Heat and Dust
The girl was particularly indignant --not only about this watchman but about all the other people all over India. She said they were all dirty and dishonest. She had a very pretty, open, English face but when she said that it became mean and clenched, and I realised that the longer she stayed in India the more her face would become like that.
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Alexander McCall Smith
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The Double Comfort Safari Club
Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to {Mma Ramotswe} at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert that the world was theirs too, that what happened in Botswana was every bit as important, and valuable, as what happened anywhere else.
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