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La historia de una amistad que empieza en 1987 cuando el narrador, un joven aspirante a novelista, viaja a una universidad del Medio Oeste estadounidense y conoce a Rodney Falk, su compañero de despacho, un ex combatiente de Vietnam huraño e inabordable, ferozmente lúcido y corroído en secreto por su pasado.
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Grave, contemplative, prestige and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Javier Cercas
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 283
- Publisher
- Debolsillo, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, DEBOLSILLO
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781596912144
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Javier Cercas (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) es un escritor español y columnista del diario *El País*.
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