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When this novel opens, in the winter of 1997, Delmira, exiled from her native Mexico for 30 years, is living in Germany, working as an editor and translator of works by Latin American authors. In the bleakness of that winter she begins to look back at her childhood in Agustini, Mexico, a place and climate that stand in stark contrast to the dreariness of Berlin. Two years of her childhood make u...