Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
address to LULAC (July 1, 2005)
2007, 2008
“A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.”
Quoted in José Saramago: il bagaglio dello scrittore, page 41, by Giulia Lanciani, published by Bulzoni, 1996 ISBN 8871199332, 9788871199337 (256 pages).
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