The Story of a Brief Marriage is a feat of extraordinary sensitivity and imagination, a meditation on the fundamental elements of human existence-eating, sleeping, washing, touching, speaking-that give us direction andpurpose, even as the world around us collapses. Set over the course of asingle day and night, this unflinching debut confronts marriage and war, life and death, bestowing on its subjects the highest dignity, however briefly.
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