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Oct 01, 2021 BANNED! — The Satanic Verses

Posted at 12:30h in Book of the Week, Rare Books by lyuba 0 Comments

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“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?...

Dec 01, 2016 A Fulbright Scholar Returns Bearing Gifts

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Rich in imagery and fantastical in nature, La Trama Celeste by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Para Las Seis Cuerdas by Jorge Luis Borges are the two newest additions to the Rare Books Latin American collection. Every country has a history – that is certain. If we...