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Fred daguiar has 17 books on goodreads with 4375 ratings. His first novel, the longest memory, won the 1994 whitbread first novel award. The longest memory by fred daguiar mrs weardens year 12. The unique, fragmented narrations with its ironies and bigoted criticisms lurking in the words of many presents a definite ethical vision in which the reader commiserates with the suffering and feels contempt for the savage.
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