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Looking for Angels

I?ve been around my father?s library while growing up and he had somehow influenced my love for reading. I started being hooked to books at an early age enjoying all those detective mystery novels then moving on to teeny bopper paperbacks. Now my taste has somehow changed adapting to a different genre. I would say [...]

4May2008 | vdr | 1 comment | Continued
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Touched By An Angel

Miguel Angel Asturias is an esteemed poet, novelist, diplomat, and a recipient of a Nobel Prize for Literature. Going through his biographical sketch leaves someone with awe. What his family has undergone because of political disparities with those who are in position is daunting. I mean, the thought of defying somebody in position sends shivers [...]

2May2008 | vdr | 0 comments | Continued
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Miguel Angel: A Biographical Sketch

Miguel Angel Asturias was born on 1899 in Republica de Guatemala, he was raised in his native country by his parents Ernesto Asturias, a lawyer turned sugar and flour importer, and Maria Rosales, a schoolteacher. He attended the state high school for a baccalaureate education and proceeded to take up medicine at the University of [...]

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