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		<title>The White Silence: A Japanese Novel of Loneliness</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if the smallest act of kindness could save someone whose suffering no one else had noticed?The White Silence began with a question inspired by José Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning novel Blindness:&#160;What would happen if the same mysterious epidemic of white blindness appeared in modern Japan?&#160;Saramago’s novel places ordinary people inside a sudden collapse of sight, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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