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The Scroll Of Seduction

By Gioconda Belli (trans. Lisa Dillman) - Published 2006

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Lucia, an orphaned teenager at school in a convent in Madrid in the 1960s, meets Manuel, a historian with an obsession about Juana ...Read Review

Our Lives Are the Rivers

By Jaime Manrique - Published 2006

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Biographical Fiction Literary

History recognizes Manuela Sáenz, mistress of the 19th century revolutionary Simón Bolívar, as one of South America’s earliest ...Read Review

The Last Masquerade

By Antonio Orlando Rodriguez - By Ernesto Mestre-Reed (trans.) - Published 2005

Genres:

Literary

Excited about the prospect of watching Eleanora Duse perform on stage, Lucho Belalcazar and Wenceslao (Wen) Hoyos decide to travel from their native ...Read Review