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The double death of quincas waterbray books library. Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost brazilian author of the twentieth century, the double death of quincas waterbray comes to penguin classics in a new translation by the dean of portugueselanguage translators, gregory rabassa. The double death of quincas waterbray penguin random house. The two deaths of quincas wateryell book, 1988 worldcat. Despite the promise of a wild time on the production notes and lots of mad rushing around the seedier side of an exotic city, the two deaths of quincas wateryell.
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