Learning Not to Forget

I just finished Tzvetan Todorov's The Conquest of America; an amazing book. It has been a long time since I have not really enjoyed reading a book. I have of course read many interesting books recently. But there is a big different between reading an "interesting" book and "enjoying" a book.
He writes: "[...] the modern exile, which in its turn personifies a tendency characteristic of our society, a being who has lost his country without thereby acquiring another, who lives in a double exteriority [...] Exile is fruitful if one belongs to both cultures at the once, without identifying oneself with either."