"The desire for homeland is not an atavistic birthright but a voluntary sense of belonging to Europe's continent of refugees."
"Pascal feels detached from Germany, so Ben, long a resident of Berlin, writes of his native England as an increasingly foreign country."
"In one, Pascal remembers meeting a fellow walker in the sunless depths of a spectacular gorge in Japan. When asked where he is from, the man points at his feet: here."
"All three generations restlessly seek escape and rest from escape, and all return to a beloved island where none of them was born."
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