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Zama

Antonio Di Benedetto

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1956
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 224

"To the victims of expectation," runs the dedication, and then the book opens on a dead monkey in a river, snagged among the posts of a jetty, rocking on a current that ought to carry it off and never does. Don Diego de Zama watches it from the bank.

There we were: Ready to go and not going.
Zama, Antonio Di Benedetto

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