Beer Cans in the Rio de La Plata

Jorge Stamadianos. Latin American Literary Review Press, $15.95 (154pp) ISBN 978-1-891270-00-0

FYI: Cerda lived in exile in East Germany for more than a decade. His novel Una casa vacia won three prestigious awards in Chile in 1996.

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