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Stories from a fictional mountain village Maran in Armenia, where only old people remain and the single road connecting the village to the valley is losing to grass because it is seldom used by the only shop owner of the village. I was trying to guess the (current) time, but I guess it is also fictional or it is not important because the time has stopped in the village. All the elderly village inhabbitants have lived through immense suffering of infectious diseases, famine, landslide, and war an
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"They ate lunch in silence and tranquility. They spoke little and only of distant things, and there was so much that was offhand and ordinary in the clinking of spoons, the request to pass the salt and slice a piece of cheese, or in a swallow of water and the slightly dry heel of the homemade bread, that Anatolia sensed for the first time that life was a gift, not something to take for granted. She shifted her gaze subtly from Yasaman to Ovanes and then to Vasily, catching his measured, ...more
"They ate lunch in silence and tranquility. They spoke little and only of distant things, and there was so much that was offhand and ordinary in the clinking of spoons, the request to pass the salt and slice a piece of cheese, or in a swallow of water and the slightly dry heel of the homemade bread, that Anatolia sensed for the first time that life was a gift, not something to take for granted. She shifted her gaze subtly from Yasaman to Ovanes and then to Vasily, catching his measured, ...more
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