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Fiction: Rabble! A story of the Paris Commune, Troubador 2021; A Gift for the Sultan, on Constantinople in the 15th century, 2010, Turkish translation Bir cihan, iki sultan, Nokta Kitap, Istanbul, 2013; Welcome to My Contri, short stories of Latin America, 1988, expanded ebook 2012. Other short stories in Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International and other journals; short stories in Spanish published in anthologies and online journals under by-line of "Baltasar Lotroyo". Nonfiction: Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics and the Constructing of Identity (U. Arizona Press); The Land and People or Argentina and The Land and People of Venezuela, both HarperCollins; articles and essays in The New York Times, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, and other p ...more

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	Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude (Monarch notes) 4.43 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics, and the Constructing of Identity 3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Welcome to My Contri it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Geoffrey Fox and 1 other person liked Jane Ciabattari's review of Skull Water: "Skull Water is gritty, mysterious, at times comic, a coming-of-age novel the unveils hidden stories from a time in Korean history that most readers know, if at all, from a narrow perspective. My conversation with author Heinz Insu Fenkl was enlighten" Read more of this review »
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To try to make sense of the religious fanaticism that either inspires or serves as a pretext for so much of the violence and destruction we are watching at this moment, I turned to this book, which I had long intended to read. It has been a great ple ...more
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Geoffrey Fox and 1 other person liked Karla Huebner's review of Little Follies: A Mystery at the Millennium: "Americans Adam and Joan optimistically set off for Poland in the early days of their romance and the latter days of 1999--Adam because he's a historian who believes he's on the trail of an important overlooked document that could make his reputation," Read more of this review »
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Geoffrey Fox rated a book it was amazing Underworld by Don DeLillo	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Impressive but disjointed. The narrative jumps from epoch to epoch — 1950s to 1990 to 1974, etc., each with one or more casts of characters — make the reader work too hard to pull out the coherent story, which is, like the "underworld" of the New Yor ...more
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As a companion piece to Will Storr's The Science of Storytelling, here is another book about the neuroscience of literary creation, novelist and journalist Rosa Montero's account of her own childhood and later experiences of panic and why and how wri ...more
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An event “may flash before our eyes, or brush our skin, or make our ear drums vibrate, but we give it no importance until or unless we see its relevance to other things we believe or remember, that is, to the story we have formed in our head about ho ...more
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