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1.		The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now from Vintage Price: $7.75 Customer Review: I was extremely excited to read this book. It is certainly out of date, especially considering the topic is politics in Latin America. Even within fifteen years, things have changed drastically. It is certainly an interesting look at Latin America. Guillermoprieto describes in detail the painful... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America from Vintage Price: $5.55 Customer Review: I knew that my knowledge of Latin America was wanting, but I had no idea how much I never learned in school nor received from the news media. Guillermoprieto does a solid, dispassionate job of explaining the complicated politics of Latin America and what it means for those countries and their... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.	[no image]	Samba: The Making of Brazilian Carnival from Knopf Price: $19.43 Customer Review: The title of the book "Samba" (either picked by the author or by the publisher for marketing purposes) is misleading. The book has nothing significant about Samba, music or dance. (For example, one of the very few Samba dance descriptions is of a couple coming from an affluent beach neighborhood to... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution from Pantheon Price: $2.72 Customer Review: This book is a marketing tome for communism, a failed system. I was expecting more of a novel, but unfortunately it fell short of my expectations.	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		The Book of Lamentations from Marsilio Publishers Price: $11.88 Customer Review: This is one of the masterpieces of Latin American fiction. The plot tells of the uprising of the Maya Indians in the Southern MExican state of Chiapas. The book adopts a panoramic sqweep of a Diego Rivera mural weaving together dozen of characters, plot lines, and perspectives in a tour-de-force of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Pushkin's Children: Writing on Russia and Russians from Mariner Books Price: $2.85 Customer Review: There is a certain kind of well-educated, privileged Russian who loathes his country's Orthodox, monarchist past but is also embarassed and ashamed of its brutal, murderous foray into communism. Tatyana Tolstaya seems just one more cynical, ironic "nihilist lite" voice from Russia who offers... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.	[no image]	EL HOMBRE MOLOTOV.(Nicaragua)(TT: The Molotov man.)(TA: Nicaragua): An article from: Letras Libres from Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. Price: $5.95	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.	[no image]	La Habana en un espejo/ The Habana in a Mirror (Literatura Mondadori/ Mondadori Literature) (Spanish Edition) from Grijalbo Mondadori Sa	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	LA OTRA GUERRA DE COLOMBIA.(TT: Colombia's other war.): An article from: Letras Libres from Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. Price: $5.95	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.	[no image]	Las guerras en Colombia: Tres ensayos (Spanish Edition) from Aguilar	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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