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This novel goes far above politics, right up into high art. Midas heroism does not last long, though, for he soon hatches a plan to save his reputation that. Laura restrepo writes about colombia, her native land, but she spends a good deal of her time in mexico, and to read her latest novel, delirium, is to understand why. I wondered it to be so, as i think every colombian is living inside or outside colombia, there is this living in extreme difficulty, which marks all of us.
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