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This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would.

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This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would.

Tags: historian, history, living

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About Elizabeth Kostova

Elizabeth Johnson Kostova (born December 26, 1964) is an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian.