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Set in a provincial Argentinean town, The Honorary Consul takes place in that bleak country of exhausted passion, betrayal, and absurd hope that Graham Greene has explored so precisely in such novels as The Power and the Glory and The Comedians. On the far side of the great, muddy... read more

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DOCTOR EDUARDO PLARR STOOD IN THE SMALL PORT on the Parana, among the rails and yellow cranes, watching where a horizontal plume of smoke stretched over the Chaco.

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  1. Graham Greene (Author)
 

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