Typically, social drop-outs, the unemployed, immigrants and gypsies, get the “loro” label. The word is pronounced condescendingly to underline the deep difference between the them and the us, those on the margins and honest well to-do citizens.
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After ten more fast minutes down the bumpy highway... a weathered sign on our left reads, “La Hacienda, one km.”
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Love
Toni Morrison's prose is as lush as ever, but this story of six black women's lives is a disappointment.
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This strong, insightful story of two Afgan brothers under brutal Taliban rule made Hosseini's fame.
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