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The Writer From a Country Without Bookstores

El escritor de un país sin librerías

2019

This documentary follows Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Equatorial Guinea's most translated author, who fled into exile after a hunger strike protesting the decades-long dictatorship of Teodoro Obiang. A portrait of literature and resistance.

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