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    Obligatory Readings

    by Alejandro Zambra Oct 03, 2018 3 minutes

    I still remember the day when the teacher turned to the chalkboard and wrote the words , , , , , , , . With each word, the silence grew, and by the end, the only sound was the sad squeaking of the chalk. By that point, we had already read long novels, almost as long as , but this time, the deadline was impossible: barely a week to get through a

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