Not a River, Selva AlmadaThe novel tells the story of two friends, Enero and El Negro, who take Tilo, the teenage son of Eusebio their recently deceased friend fishing to the Paran River. While they drink and cook and talk and dance, they try to overcome the ghosts of their past and those of the present: their mood altered by wine and torpor. This intimate, peculiar moment connecting the lives of these three men also links them to the lives of the local inhabitants of this

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