@suroora, this one's for you! And for other photophiles among this group of bibliophiles! Discovered on Swiss TV news yesterday evening: choose your top 10 books, add a bit of "mise en scène", photograph and share. This is the brainchild of an independent bookseller in a small Swiss city (started in the run-up to the …
Continue reading Heresy on a Book Blogging Site, Or: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Published by Alfaguara, 2007, 320 pages. Also published in English by Duke University Press Books, 2011, 264 pages. Translated from Spanish by Stacey Alba D. Skar. This is the story of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, written by someone who—in the late 1980s—became the country’s vice-president in the Frente Sandinista de la Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government …
Continue reading Adiós muchachos: Una memoria de la revolución sandinista—Sergio Ramírez
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