As someone who quite regularly checks flights to Buenos Aires, I didn't really need much encouragement to add Ficciones to my (now complete!) list of 2011 Reading Challenges but when I saw this wonderful banner I was instantly up for the five books Ex-Pat pitch.
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02/14/2011
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