"I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it."

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I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way, and making the reader reconsider the documentary facts which he or she may have known before.

— Amos Oz