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“Onion skins- light, translucent, golden- swirl round the chopping board in the draft created by my knife. I think of Ali Slimane's sublime white onions, as sweet as fruit, like light bulbs because, rather than being reflected in them, the light seemed to emanate from them.”

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Chez Moi: A Novel

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