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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Roberto Bolaño

Like I mentioned to someone that I would have donated my liver. This guy should not have died so young. I finished his beautiful book "The Distant Star" today. It held me and didn't let me go. I tried three times to put it down but every time I would sit at a spot, I was outside, the day was gorgeous and he opened up to me from behind his words: "Look!". This book did strike me somewhere very close as it talked about dictatorships, lost friends, torture-givers, politics pulling strings and ruining lives; all of it I had breathed once myself. And the photograph of the author at the back-flap of the novel is just a great one.

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