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A Simpler, More Physical Kind of Empathy

Lorna Sage

  • South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin

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Lorna Sage died in January 2001. Part of her autobiography, Bad Blood, for which she won the Whitbread Biography Prize, was first published in the LRB in 1993.

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