The Nobel jury hailed Mueller, 56, as a writer who "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."
The utterly destitute, comprising 20 per cent, are the completely dispossessed, that is, people who have neither land nor money, are without any means of livelihood, and are forced to leave home and become mercenaries or hired labourers or wandering beggars.
Civilians are pounded with deadly force. Women, children and men are killed and injured, forced from their homes, dispossessed and destitute. Even hospitals and aid convoys are targeted.
Mania was meticulous about the appearances, the dispossessed are often some of the proudest people. "We treat this room as our room," he said, "for the children, it's been very hard."
The dispossessed know very well that under certain circumstances everyone is capable of being a coward.
Is the established Church of England a keystone of a privileged power structure or is it called, like the man it professes to follow, to be a friend of the poor, the marginal and the dispossessed?
Possessed of a deep and sustaining history of spiritual achievement and philosophical speculation, religious liberals have been, ironically, dispossessed of that heritage.
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
Half a dozen policemen stood by as Ma, Zhou, and another dispossessed neighbor gathered to bash some tiles off the wall the other day.
Despite lingering protests, most of the dispossessed have been pacified and paid off.
The dispossessed are demanding their right.
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