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A few months ago, Beijing and Washington agreed an uneasy truce in their tit-for-tat trade war that started earlier this year and threw bilateral trade into serious jeopardy.

Other relatives of victims said they were uneasy about singling out prisoners for special retribution solely because Biden had commuted their sentences.

From the outset, we are uneasy in the company of this supposed innocent, and throughout the novel Mr. Banville keeps us at arm’s length from sympathy.

They are also uneasy about making bolder commitments to lower rates at a time when stocks are hitting new records.

His follow-up, “The Melancholy of Resistance,” published in 1989, places the reader in a similar uneasy and apocalyptic world.