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Filth

This book explores themes of corruption, crime, and moral decay within a gritty urban setting. more

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Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh

Scottish novelist known for his novel 'Trainspotting', which depicted the drug culture in Edinburgh, Scotland. Welsh's works are characterized by a realistic style and delve into social issues. more

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“Parents die, and children go on living. It is statistically sound to say that this is the case for the majority of the population. But sometimes children die before their parents. Children die, and parents go on living. Those parents go on living because they do not have many options they either live or follow their children down to Hades. Children die, and parents go on living. Those parents go on living because death, though a hard, hard thing, is not always the hardest thing. Both my children chose a hard thing. We are left with the hardest:to live after their deaths.”

“What we have been made in the society is a vacuum of hate, self-destructive consuming hate, towards one another and for everyone and everything in a way that anything not belonging to us or owned by us shouldn't be belonging to others too. A race called life which could have been made to run with each other has been made to run against each other so nobody wins at life.”