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Oafish vasco director ruy guerra brings pregnant wife aurea fernanda torres and her mother, dona maria fernanda montenegro, central station, from the city to make a new start. Our agents work with literary and commercial fiction, womens fiction, science fictionfantasy, narrative nonfiction, history, memoirs, biographies, psychology. Ending spoiler for house of sand and fog 2003, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. The cast give faultless performances, with ben kingsley and jennifer connelly, in the lead roles, leading the way.
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