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Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

✍ Scribed by José Emilio Pacheco

Book ID
112017278
Publisher
New Directions
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
509 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780811225496

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✦ Synopsis

Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City. Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed.

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