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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $18.00
Pages: 210
Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awaiting his assassin, and a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer." Reprint.
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