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He had come into contact with Archimboldi’s work, as far as he could recall, at the age of twenty, when he read The Endless Rose, The Leather Mask, and Rivers of Europe in German, books he borrowed from a library in Santiago.
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It wasn’t long before Archimboldi’s fourth book arrived at the publishing house. It was called Rivers of Europe, although it was really about only one river, the Dnieper.