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As Ms. Gaul shows through wide-ranging detective work, Egyptian farmers were obliged to rely on artificial fertilizers and year-round irrigation after successive efforts to dam the Nile eventually shut down the river’s age-old fertilization cycle.

“And I am the opposite—a lover of life, and therefore an age-old guerrilla fighter for life.”

The harvest is an age-old ritual that forms a major part of Palestinian culture.

They echoed Roberts’ argument that things have changed in the South, and the age-old refrain of Supreme Court racial recidivists: Surely, these special protections must stop sometime.

“Is there such a thing as a new story?” a character wonders, and the novel asks the same as it stages an age-old cycle of destruction and salvation in a fresh and memorable guise.