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Octavio's Journey
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Shortlisted for the Goncourt first novel award, Octavio's Journey is an epic fable about an extraordinary hero.
'Simply magical' Elle
A compact but kaleidoscopic fable of Venezuela from a stunning new voice in the magical realism tradition.
His body might have been hewn from a tree trunk; his heart would last for a hundred years. And, like a tree, he was one of those men who die standing up.
A chance meeting in the local pharmacy transforms the life of lonely, illiterate Octavio. He begins ...