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From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book-at once fiction, history, and memoir-that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story. Shifting seamlessly from the past to the present and following the... read more
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First Sentence edit
WE HAVE MADE OUR LIVES far away from our small city, but we just can't get used to being away from it, and we like to nurture our nostalgia when it has been a while since we've been back, so sometimes we exaggerate our accent when talking among ourselves, and use the common words and expressions that we've been storing up over the years and that our children can vaguely understand from having heard them so often.
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Antonio Muñoz Molina (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 863.64
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