The Mexican novelist is the writer of ‘The Blind Army’, the most recent Alfaguara Prize winner, written with the imagined tales of the troopers of the Bulgarian military whose eyes have been ordered to be gouged out by the Emperor of Byzantium within the ninth century. Read
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