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Doubleday

9780385546669

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Latin American History, Memoir

The Man Who Could Move Clouds

By Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Ingrid Rojas Contreras makes the recent history of Columbia immediate, personal and magical, with prose that in itself is enchantingly poetic.

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Review of ‘The Man Who Could Move Clouds’

Memory is already a slippery thing. And when it's tangled in family lore and embedded in a country's violent history, it can prove even more elusive. When Ingrid Rojas Contreras was in her 20s, living far away from her native Colombia, she suffered a head injury and became a terrified amnesiac. Desperate to retrieve her…

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