Fine Print - The Chronicle

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In a deportee's diary, it is not the most horrific sentences that are the hardest to bear, but those that point to the bare facts. How many degrees it was in the morning. How much bread was left. Who still hopes, and who slowly falls silent between entries. This diary also shakes you with the small, precise administration of survival. Just as a person tries to preserve himself by clinging to days, rations, news and names. This diary edition is a…