5/30/2023 0 Comments The tourist by olen steinhauer![]() I knew that at any moment, if necessary, I could disappear. ![]() It’s a world without roots, carrying within it all the pros and cons this suggests, and until the birth of my daughter, the rootlessness of the expat felt like a powerful thing to possess. It’s neither the home you’ve left behind, nor an adopted culture-instead, it’s somewhere in between: a country of the mind, in which English is the national language, the Habsburg buildings are an outdoor museum made just for you, and because of your disconnection from the culture, you can arrange your daily details pretty much as you’d like. I’d never been a spy, committed murder, or smuggled state secrets across borders, but for the previous six years I’d lived as a novelist in Budapest, living in that tenuous non-place where many expatriates exist. ![]() ![]() The idea of a Tourist as a kind of intelligence agent sprang out of my own lifestyle in 2007. ![]()
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