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A World of Books 2000: International Classics (Library of Congress) |
 | | By linking their own aspirations with those of a heroic figure in Portugal's history, they produced a book at once lyrical and rebellious, classic and yet contemporary, nationalistic but infused with universal themes. |
| | It was during the four kilometer walk to school through the mountainous coffee-growing region that young Laguerre learned to love his native land. |
| | , Laguerre tells the story of several Puerto Ricans who fled the isolation and poverty of the island by going to New York and who learn to be Puerto Rican in the crucible of prejudice and demanding but unrewarding employment. |
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