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And it hasn't been translated into English yet? This is a viral marketing campaign if ever I saw one; it should be a publisher's wet dream.

"The nobel-prize winning novel that the CIA doesn't want you to read!"



Wikipedia has a list of selected editions.

The first english edition was in 1963, the first american one in 1964.


FTA: "Mr. President—out last summer in David Unger’s lucid new translation"

I assumed that was a translation into English.


My mistake! The translator name helped me locate the novel:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/mr-president-18


It's been translated and is widely available in English. It's an excellent book and one of the most important Latin American novels of the mid-1900s.




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