"The past is really unknowable, but it’s got to be knowable enough so that we can seek forgiveness for our crimes…"
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On confronting and atoning for the past in “Ariel Dorfman: 'Not to belong anywhere, to be displaced, is not a bad thing for a writer'” in The Guardian (2018 May 9)
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