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Books set in Argentina, a country in South America
![Casa tomada [Cuento] by Julio Cortázar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1407175276l/21845071._SY160_.jpg "Casa tomada [Cuento] by Julio Cortázar")
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Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School that became the headquarters of the business. I talked to Dr. Emilio Mignone, a distinguished physician whose daughter Monica had disa
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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For all its outwardly easy Latin charm, Buenos Aires was making me feel sick and upset, so I did take that trip to the great plains where the gaucho epics had been written, and I did manage to eat a couple of the famous asados: the Argentine barbecue fiesta (once summarized by Martin Amis's John Self as 'a sort of triple mixed grill swaddled in steaks') with its slavish propitiation of the sizzling gods of cholesterol. Yet even this was spoiled for me: my hosts did their own slaughtering and the
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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