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Makbara

by Juan Goytisolo · 1980

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The author of Landscapes After the Battle, Juan the Landless and The Virtues of the Solitary Bird returns with a novel whose essential theme is love. Much of the wit and black humour in the book stems from the author's vision of sex as a great leveller, a cosmic joke perpetrated upon man.

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1980s1980sMore like thisLess of thisSpainSpainMore like thisLess of this
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