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- ↑ "Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize: Prizewinner 2019". Goethe-Institut New York. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ↑ Knight, Lucy (7 April 2022). "International Booker prize shortlist delivers 'awe and exhilaration'". The Guardian .
- ↑ The title is a close paraphrase of a line from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Experience". It is in lower case on the title page of Searls' book.
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