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Arquivo de Julho, 2009

Left to Tell

Posted in L, com etiqueta , on Julho 31, 2009 | 3 Comentários »

by Immaculée Ilibagiza
mmaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a [...]

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Posted in M, com etiqueta , , on Julho 25, 2009 | 2 Comentários »

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is Gabriel García Márquez’s first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, “Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing” (Los Angeles Times).
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist–an undistinguished journalist and lifelong [...]

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Blindness

Posted in B, com etiqueta , on Julho 11, 2009 | 5 Comentários »

By Jose Saramago
A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no [...]

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