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Hailed as “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag)

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Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution

Akenfield by Ronald Blythe pencils But he is not aFrom the publisher: Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way of life. Ronald Blythes wonderful book raises enduring questions about the relations between memory and modernity, nature and human nature, silence and speech. 384 pages. 5" x 8".