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Back home, on holiday, I finally found out “Putas asesinas” by Roberto Bolano (advised months ago by Kerlames). Just to mention three stories I was astonished with, “El retorno”; the story of a ghost and, “Putas asesinas” and “Bubba”, a tale of a South American, an African and a Spaniard football players and their adventurous journey in a top class team in Spain… Bolano is a versatile writer; whose combine a good sense of humour, superb imagination and wild narrative that gets anyone from the very first page. Here there is a fragment of Bubba. (Spanish language). For English speakers check this out.
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