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El turno del escriba

Graciela Montes and Ema Wolf · 2005 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

In a Genoese prison at the end of the thirteenth century the romance writer Rustichello of Pisa is set to take down the travels of his fellow prisoner Marco Polo. The novel imagines the two men and the making of the book that resulted, which is not held here. It was written jointly by two Argentine authors of children's literature and won the 2005 Alfaguara.

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