Purity Format:Paperback the men and women who

the men and women who pass through these stories have a mystery and singularity which are as unforgettable for the reader as they were for the child

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Peter Clark Dissident Syria by miriam cooke

Purity Format:Paperback the men and women whoThe stories in Purity take the reader through cities and suburbs, apartments and streets, to find characters struggling to survive in modern society: a man has an outburst on a bus; a fugitive finds insight in a colour wheel; a social realist kills his friend with a hammer; a thief finds himself in books. And cleaners reluctantly go on cleaning. With gravity and humour, against the backdrop of a violent civilization, people are depicted as fallen, or