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    Ivan Vladislavic, Portrait with keys. The city of Johannesburg unlocked.
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    🇮🇳 Sarat Chandra Chatterji, Stories From Saratchandra 🇲🇾 Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors 🇺🇸 Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, American...
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    Started to read No Man's Land. So far enjoying it: interesting plot, wonderful style. Not enjoying so much reading the book in archive...
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    https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/07/cesar-airas-unreal-magic-how-the-eccentric-author-took-over-latin-american-literature
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    El siglo de las luces (Explosion in a Cathedral) is one of the most enjoyable reading experiences I've ever had. I've never understood...
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    The Kingdom of this World- Alejo Carpentier Marvelous. I bought this and two other newly translated Carpentier novels a few weeks ago...
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    🇺🇸 Raymond Chandler - Playback (++) Silly plot, but when the prose is this stylish who cares.
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    Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer Reading this book was a weird way of familiarizing myself with...
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    Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, and Babycakes-Armistead Maupin. First four books in Maupin's...
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    Anne Carson - Eros the Bittersweet, an essay. - This is my favorite work by Anne Carson so far. Well researched, extremely well written...
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    🇦🇷 Mariana Enriquez - Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Things We Lost in the Fire) (++) Short stories, mostly horror. Horror's not...
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    alik-vit replied to the thread What do you do?.
    We have this one in the Botanic garden of SPb, and it's great annual attraction for visitors (night opening, etc.). But your flower is...
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    alik-vit replied to the thread What do you do?.
    The German nickname is great one!!! It fits to the flower very well!
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    In Portuguese the name of this flower is "Perfect Love " and in German "Little Stepmother" because of the sullen expression of its "face".
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    alik-vit reacted to kpjayan's post in the thread What do you do? with Love Love.
    imagine the long wait of one year for this flower to bloom for one night and wilt before dawn ( a life of 6 hrs). Last time, he/she...
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