The Literary Review, September 22nd, 1997
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Shortly after midday, swerving to avoid three children, a recklessly overloaded truck rolled on its side, spewing a shipment of Malaysian refrigerators and steel sinks across the recently finished Presidential Highway. The sight of new refrigerators, irresistible in that sultry, fetid city, drew people from the shanties beyond the rows of dusty palms on either side of the road. The police had to disperse the mob with threats substantiated by a few skyward bursts of machine gun fire. The upshot was that the arrival of the world-renowned poet Luz de Lanavalli was not followed by the intend...
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