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Product Description: Louise, an American innocent, takes up a scholarship in the south of France in winter 1961 and promptly falls for Wally, a gregarious Algerian worker in flight from brutal colonial war. He teaches her about life and love in a chilly furnished room, against a background of French pop music that makes it all seem easy...read more

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9781844086429 | Virago Pr, April 3, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Louise, an American innocent, takes up a scholarship in the south of France in winter 1961 and promptly falls for Wally, a gregarious Algerian worker in flight from brutal colonial war.

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Former South American Marxist guerilla Juan Belmonte travels to Brazil to recover precious medieval coins that were stolen and hidden by Nazis and discovers he is not the only one on this treasure hunt

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9780156005487 | Mariner Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Former South American Marxist guerilla Juan Belmonte travels to Brazil to recover precious medieval coins that were stolen and hidden by Nazis and discovers he is not the only one on this treasure hunt

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Written by the author--a Chilean ex-patriate--of The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, a novel of intrigue follows a race between a onetime guerilla and a former spy to recover a stolen treasure.

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9780151001934 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: 'Readers may be unfamiliar with Ariel Dorfman and Paco Ignacio Taibo III (with whom Sepâulveda is compared in the brief blurb on the book's cover), but no doubt they easily will become engrossed in the world of The name of the bullfighter, thanks to Suzanne Ruta's ability to translate a novel's genre as well as its words'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v.

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Eleven stories deal with history, a kidnapped shoe clerk, and eccentric tinkerer, an adventurous accountant, foreign food, and ambitious men

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9780802100184 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, November 1, 1987), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Eleven stories deal with history, a kidnapped shoe clerk, and eccentric tinkerer, an adventurous accountant, foreign food, and ambitious men

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