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Agua / Eduardo Berti ; translated from the Spanish by Alexander Cameron and Paul Buck ; with an afterword by Alberto Manguel

By:

Berti, Eduardo, , 1964-

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Pushkin Press , 2003.Description: 159 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781901285420

Uniform titles:

Agua . English

Subject(s):

Latin American fiction -- --20th century -- --Translation into English

DDC classification:

LAS FIC BER

LOC classification:

PQ7798.12.E736 A3813 2003

Summary: The year is 1920, and Luis Agua, an authorised representative of an electricity company, arrives in Vila Natal, an inhospitable village in Portugal. His objective is to convince the inhabitants of the benefits of artificial light. Before long Agua learns that the village and the castle that presides over it hide deep secrets. A noble widow in decline, a will that is both cruel and impertinent, a pioneer of aviation, an epidemic and an unexpected ending are the ingredients of this novel.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC BER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		009834

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The year is 1920, and Luis Agua, an authorised representative of an electricity company, arrives in Vila Natal, an inhospitable village in Portugal. His objective is to convince the inhabitants of the benefits of artificial light. Before long Agua learns that the village and the castle that presides over it hide deep secrets. A noble widow in decline, a will that is both cruel and impertinent, a pioneer of aviation, an epidemic and an unexpected ending are the ingredients of this novel.

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