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The Quiet Librarian
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Chapters 40-52Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, death, child death, sexual violence, rape, child sexual abuse, physical abuse, mental illness, racism, and religious discrimination.
Chapter 40 Summary: “Bosnia, 1995”
In the past timeline, Zorić enters Nura’s cell, explaining that she will either provide the information he wants, or he will torture her. She waits until he is standing close enough that she can reach him and then slits his throat with her knife and steals his pistol. She then frees Amina. The two decide to escape, even if they are shot in the attempt. Just then, a Bosnian shell explodes, and chaos ensues. The Serbian barracks are under attack. Nura manages to pry a window open, and she and Amina climb through. Outside, she sees Luka barking orders. She shoots at him twice, first in the chest and then in the face. She thinks that all three men who murdered her family are now dead.
Chapter 41 Summary: “Minnesota, After Everything”
In the present, Hana stares at Luka’s face on the website in disbelief. She realizes that her bullets did not kill him. He is now, she is horrified to see, a diplomat at the highest level working with the UN. Just then, Dylan comes out of the bathroom. She looks at the light reflecting off his golden hair and then looks back to her computer: She realizes that Dylan looks just like Luka.
