Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.
चूंकि मैं वही पुस्तकें पढ़ा करती थी जिनके चरित्र विदेशी थे, इसलिए मैं आश्वस्त हो गई थी कि पुस्तकों का मूल स्वभाव ही है कि उनमें विदेशी हों, और ऎसे तत्व भी जिनसे मैं खुद तादात्म्य का अनुभव नहीं करती थी.