The Distant Affair

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Chapter One Abdullah Sheikh, fifty-two, was the only man in the walled city who still understood the hydraulic pressure of the old desalination pumps, and he knew that his hands, which had once turned valves with the precision of a surgeon, now trembled like leaves in a gale. He woke from the dream where his mother’s porcelain teacup cracked along the rim, a fracture that mirrored the early...

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