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The Book of Memories

The Book of Memories

Gerdes, Dick
Shua, Ana María
Stavans, Ilan

Hardcover

Series: Jewish Latin America

General FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0826319483
ISBN13: 9780826319487
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: Sep 1 1998
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.55
Language: English

Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Ana Maria Shua is one of the most exciting and prolific young Latin American Jewish writers. She published her first book at the age of sixteen; since then she has published thirteen books, including nonfiction, novels, short stories, and children's books.

The Book of Memories, originally published in Spanish in 1994, is a humorous yet moving exploration of a Jewish family's history, as seen through the eyes of three generations of women. The story begins with Grandfather Gedalia leaving Poland with forged papers to escape the army and sailing to Argentina, the other America. Sometimes charming, sometimes stingy, this patriarchal figure, a peddler and sometime moneylender, heads a clan that includes, among others, the feisty and foul-mouthed Aunt Judith and Uncle Silvester, a seducer of young girls who has such high principles that he turns himself in after missing the Argentine police raid on his socialist printing press.

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