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Just finished reading this. Recommend it.
Very well written and perceptive, it explores the inner life of grief, healing, imagination and love. Historical context is the the elimination of the last Cathar community in 14th century France in a remote valley at the edge of the Pyrenees. The "ghost story" part is one of those perfectly balanced tales on the edge of the distinction between what is imagined and what exists in the world outside the imagination.
The quote (fictional) is from the English translation of an old parchment found in a cave in southern France, the last words of the last person out of several hundred Cathar heretics who were sealed up in the cave to die.
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