| 1 | The world we live in |
It was well after midnight. Co-author Cambié had landed in the middle of Kazakhstan, only three years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
She had read a number of spy novels and was feeling rather nervous at the prospect of having to go through immigration as the only European on the plane.
Little did she know that the exchange she would have with a smiling Kazakh officer would change her way of looking at the world.
Still under the influence of cold-war mythology, the last question she had expected to be asked in the middle of post-communist Central Asia was whether the football team of her home town in Italy would continue to move from victory to victory. The immigration officer’s passion for football was so strong ...
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