The Anger of Exile
By Colm Tóibín The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine Cockroach by Rawi Hage There is a photograph of Thomas Mann taken in Lübeck, Germany, in 1955, shortly before his death. He is standing with his wife, Katia, outside the family house, the house of Buddenbrooks, or what remained of it. He is staring straight at the camera; the expression on his face bears all the complexity of what has been lost and …

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