Alberto Manguel is the award-winning author of hundreds of works, most recently (in English) Fabulous Monsters, Packing My Library: An Elegyand Ten Digressions, Curiosity and All Men Are Liars. He lives in New York. Read more of his work at manguel.com.
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Collateral Damage
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