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Re: Books worth learning a language for

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One Hundred Years of Solitude and D. Quijote de la Mancha for Spanish.

The Maias (nothing to with the civilization with the same name) and Dona Flor and her Two Husbands for Portuguese (actually, any Eca de Queiroz or Jorge Amado).

The short tales of Quim Monzo for Catalan (oddly enough, his work is barely translated to be in Spanish at all. I barely can speak Catalan, but I am quite good at passive understanding. This author was one of the main reasons why I decided to make an effort on listening and trying to make sense out of it.
Rispectuflly disagree on One hundred years of solitude, love GGM but that book made me sleep (although I might try it again now that I am older and wiser). DOn Quijote is great though!
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