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This book has everything: machismo, justice, betrayal, love, religion. It also has a very well-developed cast of characters: a doctor who's incapable of emotion, an ex-priest who's still struggling with his faith, a drunken honorary consul whose only redeeming quality is his love for his former prostitute wife, and a novelist who's way too proud of himself and his works. Those characters are full of flaws, but that is what makes them human, and that is what sets everything in motion. They seem t
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