Word: harari
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Died. Manya Harari, 63, Russian-born English publisher and translator; of cancer; in London. Equally at home in either culture, she founded her own publishing house, Harvill Press, after World War II, then dedicated the rest of her life to introducing the works (many of which she translated herself) of contemporary Russian authors. She published the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz) and Evgeny Evtushenko, but was best known for collaborating with Max Hayward on the translation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago...
...TIME published the translation made available to us and we were unaware that the text was incomplete. Herewith the missing lines as translated by Manya Harari...
This African extremism has increased the fears of the European extremists. When I was home this summer one of them said to me, "If we allow the Africans to take over the government there will be chaos. Look what happened a few years ago in the Harari African township when the two rival African parties declared a virtual war on each other and started burning each other's huts down. If the European law had not stepped in the total African population may have become involved. How can we let these people govern our country...
...ROBERT HARARI Los Angeles