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*The Kiss of the Spider Woman* is a 1976 novel by Argentine author Manuel Puig. The narrative is constructed almost entirely through dialogue between two cellmates in a Buenos Aires prison: Molina, a gay window dresser convicted of corruption of a minor, and Valentín, a Marxist revolutionary. To pas...
Baltasar and Blimunda is a historical novel published in 1982 by the Portuguese author José Saramago. Set in the eighteenth century, the narrative intertwines a love story between a disabled soldier and a clairvoyant woman with the massive construction of the Mafra Convent. Blending historical fact...
Wole Soyinka's 1965 debut novel follows five young Nigerian intellectuals confronting corruption and disillusionment after independence.
Salman Rushdie's 1999 novel recasts the Orpheus and Eurydice myth through two fictional rock stars in an alternative modern history.
