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A companion to the scandalous bestseller In Praise of the Stepmother, Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel is "an amazingly seductive work" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). The boundary between physical reality and the imagination has been at the heart of literature in Spanish ever since Don... read more
First Sentence
The doorbell rang, Dona Lucrecia went to see who was there, and like a portrait in the open doorway, with the twisted gray trees of the Olivar de San Isidro as the background, she saw the golden ringlets and blue eyes of Fonchito's head.
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- Mario Vargas Llosa (Author)
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