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Author: Rafael Nadal and John Carlin
Publisher: Hachette
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780751547733
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This was arguably the most looked forward to tennis book since Andre Agassi’s Open a few years ago. Yet the timing of Rafael Nadal’s autobiography did raise a few eyebrows. It was announced right after his most successful year as a tennis player, a time when many believed he was at the height of his powers and had a few good years in him. An autobiography at the age of 25 is a baffling idea.

Author: Graham Hunter
Publisher: Backpage Press
Year: 2011
ISBN: 0956497128
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The first announcement of this book was greeted with much excitement and anticipation by many football fans, irrespective of their football affiliations. Pep Guardiola’s FC Barcelona had already become stuff of legend even when the book was conceived.

Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Year: 1997
ISBN: 9780853459910
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent is Eduardo Galeano’s first and best known work. It is easily one of the most powerful books ever written. A more detailed and thorough account of Latin American history, a history of exploitation, violence and poverty, would be hard to find.

Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Aakar Books
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9788189833701
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If any book can claim to be Eduardo Galeano’s biography, it would be this. Days and Nights of Love and War is a mixture of autobiography and social critique. It is a testimony to Galeano’s loyalty to his unique style of writing which marries fact and fiction even as it combines ferocious passion with kindness and sensitivity.

Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Granta
Year: 2010
ISBN: 9781846274398
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History is perhaps the most flawed edifice that has been handed down and been added to by successive generations of the world. It works by the magical illusion that it is sacrosanct, unquestionable and impartial.

Authors: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780061988257
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The Island Beneath the Sea is everything we have come to expect from Isabel Allende. It is rich, colourful and sensual. Her writing became popular with her heart rending memoir Paula where she chronicled her daughter’s fight against a disease that eventually claimed her life.

Authors: Andre Agassi
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9780307268198
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Evidently, a lot of thought goes into the cover photograph of an autobiography, the ultimate act of putting oneself in front of the world to be dissected. From the cover of Open, Andre Agassi’s haggard face stares blankly at the reader.