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From A to X : A Story in Letters

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"In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent lover Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida'sletters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and ofits motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But the area is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroachesfrom outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity--anintimate dance, a shared meal--assume for A'ida a life-affirmingsignificance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them. From A to X is a powerfulexploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining acommunity which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, findstranscendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existen ce."--

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  • ISBN-13: 9781804299890
  • ISBN-10: 1804299898
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Publish Date: September 2025
  • Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.35 pounds
  • Page Count: 208

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