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The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Let me share three stories.

The first tells of a terrible drought that devastates the countryside in a South American country. The peasants struggle to survive in the face of bad harvests, dying animals, and a host of other obstacles that pervade their apparently cursed lives. Rumors soon circulate about strange activities on the estate of a wealthy land…

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