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Aurua by Carlos Fuentes

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Felipe Montero sits reading a newspaper in a seedy café, when he is startled by a classified ad. The solicitation seems written with him in mind. Someone wants to hire a young historian, fluent in French, at a very high salary. Montero has studied at the Sorbonne, is a skilled historical researcher, and his current part-time work as a teacher pays less …

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