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Old 09-22-2014, 06:26 PM   #4
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If anyone's interested in further prize-winning Latin American literature, Alvarez's other reprint novels from Algonquin Books are couponable @ Kobo (at least in Canada).

Also, award-winning Mexican-American literary fiction novelist Cecile Pineda (Wikipedia), who's written another of my highly-recommended personal favourites, The Love Queen of the Amazon, currently has 5 of her works on sale for $2 or less in the Amazon The Big Deal Sale, good until October 5th, which I found and purchased via this post in arcadata's affiliate link thread so she would get the commission, by way of thanks for having alerted us to so many freebies over the years.

(I was kind of hoping it would be a multi-store promo like some of the other included publishers were doing and I could get ePubs via Kobo, but alas, this was not to be, and for less than $8 for 5 novels [some of them the award-winning ones], I'm willing to re-buy the ones I really like to encourage multi-store sales if they should drop later.)

TLQOTA is a quietly hilarious zany magical realism South American historical period-set romp with a firm dose of social satire (and also happens to have been a NYT Notable Book of the Year listee), which I've owned and enjoyed in hardcover for years, and for just $2 it's an incredibly good deal, IMHO.

(That said, I freely admit that my tastes in literary fiction are pretty idiosyncratic and tend decidedly towards the experimental and speculative, so YMMV and I advise checking out the sample first if you're more of a heart-warming human condition story sort of traditionalist.)

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