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286 pages, Paperback
First published May 2, 2002
鈥淲hy be seduced by something as small as a front door in another country? Why fall in love with a place because it has trams and its people seldom put curtains in their homes? However absurd the intense reactions provoked by such small (and mute) foreign elements may seem, the pattern is at least familiar from our personal lives. There too we may find ourselves anchoring emotions of love on the way a person butters his or her bread, or recoiling at his or her taste in shoes. To condemn ourselves for these minute concerns is to ignore how rich in meaning these details can be.鈥�