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1) El profeta
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Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
2) Rejected
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After the collapse of civilization, society has reverted to medieval beliefs and structures. The worst offense thinkable is to consume the sweet-tasting Chisa flower, too tempting for many children to resist, so they are exiled. Banding together, the children learn to live in isolation in the mountains, using the land to survive, and discovering that the reason the Chisa flower is forbidden is because it brings vision of the truth.
3) Delatora
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Violet Rue Kerrigan, una mujer joven, recuerda su vida en el exilio de su familia luego de su testimonio, a los doce años, sobre lo que sabía que era el asesinato racista de un niño afroamericano por sus hermanos mayores. En una sucesión de episodios vívidamente recordados, Violet contempla las circunstancias de su vida como la hija menor inicialmente amada de siete hijos de Kerrigan que inadvertidamente "informa" sobre sus hermanos, poniendo...
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Julio Méndez, novelista chileno ya en la cincuentena, exiliado en Española y obsesionado por un éxito que no llega, se debate con su ansiedad y sus intuiciones sobre la propia mediocridad, al tiempo que se ve atormentado por las figuras de una todopoderosa agente literaria y del máximo escritor de su tiempo. Desgarrada y tragicómica, cotidiana y patética, la novela explora los laberintos de la marginalidad interior, así como el destierro, las...
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The celebrated Uruguayan writer relays the personal pain and extensive social damage brought on by authoritarian repression and exile. Through a novel voicing the profound disruptions to human relations under a regime of military dictators, Benedetti, an exile himself, denounces the political authorities and empowers the people with a passionate hope for their country and the message that spring never fails to follow even the most oppressive of winters....
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