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IN the early 1930s, the Peruvian Rubber Company sent a shipment of 19 Indigenous people from Iquitos, Peru, to Buenos Aires for Amado Dam, who was working on the construction of an Ethnographic Park in Tandil, in the province of Buenos Aires.
The group was to be put on show for the locals to enjoy the “exotic races.” To reduce costs and stop them from being “idle,” it is decided that the Indigenous people will finish the thematic park with their own hands.
This is how The National Telepathy (Charco Press, £11.99), a novel by Argentinian writer Roque Larraquy and translated by Frank Wynne, begins.
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