. >> host: you must have known hector bhutto perez to a prominent exiles from a worldwide who were both murdered in this time in the 1976. >> guest: but i was the uraguay list and the argentine and list so staying there was undecided. >> host: so it was lucky for all of us that you did get out. >> guest: i don't know, but for me it was. >> host: because you continue to write. >> guest: yes, i went to spain, barcelona and there i wrote to the odd years of exile almost 1213 years. >> host: which ever books of yours are translated in english? >> guest: a lot of of them, but for instance the memory of fire was written in this time thanks to the military dictatorships that gave me time to write. it was a very, very difficult experience. all american history, all american history in three volumes thru short stories telling it as flesh and bone and in something that you could touch. not ids but the human touch and of history when it is realized. >> host: in "mirrors" you read this tapestry of stories. there is a flow from one aspect, sometimes you cover a thousand years on a page. in other tim