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by Iola Lenzi\r\n\r\nIn his latest novel Map of the invisible World, Malaysian author Tash Aw discusses selective amnesia in the context of Indonesian history. One of his protagonists notes that Europeans remember bad things, while Asians forget them-as a way of erasing pain-, concluding that \u201c\u2026to be ignorant of one\u2019s true history is to live in a void\u2026where you do not really exist\u2026\u201d. Thai art Read more....<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"