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The Purple Land
W. H. Hudson
Richard Lamb loose in the Banda Oriental, the purple land east of the river: he lands at Montevideo, rides north through Canelones and Florida toward an estancia on the Paysandú border, and is swept into Santa Coloma's doomed revolt across the Cuchilla Grande and the coast of Rocha. Hudson rode this ground himself, and it brings Uruguay, and South America, into the atlas.
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The Truce
Mario Benedetti
In the form of a diary, Benedetti follows Martín Santomé, a widowed Montevideo office clerk approaching retirement, through an unexpected late love for a young co-worker, Laura Avellaneda, a brief truce of happiness against the grey routine of his life. The real city is its quiet stage: the downtown office where he counts out his last months of work, the main avenue of 18 de Julio, the waterfront Rambla along the river, and the rented room where the truce is kept.
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