The Golden Compass
Hasan Ozkan was twelve years old when the brass compass began to hum, and the noise was louder than the factory whistle. We lived at one hundred and nine of Corvid Lane, a street that smelled of wet peat and rusted iron. The town was a place of dust and debt, where the light from the streetlamps never quite reached the pavement. My father, a foreman at the rubber station, wanted me to be quiet....
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