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On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. What's going on? Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the... read more
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Terrible voting weather, remarked the presiding officer of polling station fourteen as he snapped shut his soaked umbrella and took off the raincoat that had proved of little use to him during the breathless forty-meter dash from the place where he had parked his car to the door through which, heart pounding, he had just appeared.
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- José Saramago (Author)
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- Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt
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Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0151012385
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Harcourt
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0151012385
Page Count: 320
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- Dewey: 869.342
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