The Wistful Asylum

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The flag rope slapped the pole with a dry, rhythmic crack, a sound that cut through the heat of the sirocco and the groans of the sick men in the street. The town of Saint-Jean was a border place, split by a river and a silence, where the unfinished houses stood like broken teeth against the pale sky. Violette Caron sat in the chart room of the caravanserai, the air heavy with damp wool and old...

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