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Book Title: Antigua and My Life before : a Novel
Item Length: 8in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.2in
Author: Marcela Serrano
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: General, Literary
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2001
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 14 Oz
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
