Small History of a Disagreement. Claudio Fuentes

      

      This is a monkey puzzle tree, a member of a millennial species, thousands of years old.

      Today, people use the word

      millennial

      to describe the generation that has grown up at

      the beginning of the second millennium, or second thousand years of the Common Era.

      But in this book we use the original meaning of

      millennial

      —a thousand.

      A Small History of a Disagreement

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      VANCOUVER / BERKELEY

      AN ALDANA LIBROS BOOK

      Claudio Fuentes S.

      Illustrations by Gabriela Lyon

      Translated by Elisa Amado

      First published in Spanish by Ediciones Ekaré Sur in 2017

      Text copyright © 2017 by Claudio Fuentes S.

      Illustrations copyright © 2017 by Gabriela Lyon

      English translation copyright © 2020 by Elisa Amado

      First published in Canada and the U.S. in 2020, and in the U.K. in 2021by Greystone Books.

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      An Aldana Libros book

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      ISBN 978-1-77164-707-6 (cloth)

      ISBN 978-1-77164-708-3 (epub)

      Copy editing by Linda Pruessen

      Proofreading by Elizabeth McLean

      Jacket illustration by Gabriela Lyon

      Printed and bound in China on ancient-forest-friendly paper by 1010 Printing International Ltd.

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      Greystone Books thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council,