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Five of the Best 21st-Century Argentinian Novels, recommended by Claudia Piñeiro

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You may be familiar with the work of the great Argentinian authors Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, but how about the country's crop of contemporary writers? We asked Claudia Piñeiro, author of many bestselling and critically acclaimed books, to introduce us to five unmissable 21st-century Argentinian novels.
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