It was fragile, and in need of conservation, but it was tougher than it looked – the book had been buried in the 1990s to save it from the destruction and depredation that was gutting libraries and archives during the Siege of Sarajevo, and had only recently been exhumed from the earth. – Shubigi Rao […]
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This is a futile chronicle, but at the very least, I hope to point to that body, that corpus, that library, the book as collective humanity. – Shubigi Rao ‘Afterword’ from ‘Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, Volume 1 of V’, Rock Paper Fire, Singapore, 2016, p. IV