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My eyes landed on page 23 and I read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u201cThe following day brought an even more difficult experience, a sight that does not leave my memory. On the side of the road I saw a day-old baby discarded on the bosom of his dead mother and continuing to suck on her breasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><em>A Man Who Resembles Me<\/em> is the third novel in Elias Khoury\u2019s trilogy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanleer.org.il\/en\/publication\/children-of-the-ghetto\/\"><em>The Children of the Ghetto<\/em><\/a>. It concludes the story of the journey of Adam Dannoun between Lydda, Haifa, Yaffa, and New York. 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