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    Cover of  Iosi, the Remorseful Spy
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    Iosi, the Remorse­ful Spy
    Miriam Lewin and Horacio Lutzky; Frances Riddle, trans.
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    Julia Kornberg; Jack Rockwell, trans.
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    Mot­ti of Paraguay
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