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She lay hidden, as if she were the very darkness of night. (first line of "Rivers")

— Marjorie Agosín Happiness (1991)

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The search for identity and belonging is also a motif for the human condition of the twentieth century-a century defined by displacements and migrations.

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Books unite people and books in translation are the thresholds of other cultures, invitations to travel and to know others.

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Home is understanding and being understood.

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