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Messenger Pigeons

Messenger Pigeons

Messenger Pigeons

Luis Harss

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Editorial:
Palibrio
Año de edición:
2013
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781463354374
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Poverty and illusion drive an immigrant family with memories of a desperate past in another part of the world across the Mexican border into Texas, where messages they have been receiving from messenger pigeons become calls over a hand phone that lead to a strange fate.

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