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Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it

In this adaptation of Andreas Malm’s best-selling book on the need for a bolder

Absence - Issa Quincy Cars Contrast StitchA stunning, atmospheric debut novel about memory, death and the many ghosts that inhabit the present moment. A child is beguiled by a poem read to him by his mother. The poem follows this elusive narrator like a whisper throughout his life, echoing across the years in the stories and lives of others as they are recounted to him: an enigmatic and beloved schoolteacher who leaves behind a dark secret after his death; a woman who lays the table for a son