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Overview
Sergio Prim is a staid, middle-aged geographer. The romantic advances of Brezo Varela, a lively young woman who shares his profession, induce a series of terrifying hallucinations from which he attempts to seek refuge by immersing himself in the quest to map a place in which love never results in disillusionment. A lyrical examination of language, imagination and desire.
Bel n Gopegui burst onto the Spanish literary scene in 1993, bowling over critics with her masterful debut La escala de los mapas (The Scale of Maps), which was hailed as a masterpiece. This is her first work translated into English.
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- ISBN-13: 9780872865105
- ISBN-10: 087286510X
- Publisher: City Lights Books
- Publish Date: January 2011
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
- Page Count: 176
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