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Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and “What are we doing out there in the world?
Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question “What do these people have to do with us?” and “What are we doing out there in the world?
Approximate author period: c. 1998 AD · modern
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- Kamila Shamsie
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- Approximate author period: c. 1998 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Kamila Shamsie: documented activity in 1998. Wikidata Q3087962, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3087962 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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