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Tony
I picked this up having previously read a few of Alarcon's novels and as someone who enjoys a wide range of graphic storytelling. As he relates in the afterword, the book has quite the past: based on time he spent in Peru, then written in an Iowa farmhouse, then published three years later in The New Yorker magazine, then almost ten years later, translated into Spanish for this collaboration with the Peruvian artists Alvarado, and then a few years later revised into this English-language edition ...more
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