
Entre Rios Trilogy
Three Novels
Perla Suez(Author)
University of New Mexico Press
Published on 1. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
241 pages
978-0-8263-3616-3 (ISBN)
Description
The novels in this collection, written by Perla Suez in Spanish and expertly translated here to English by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, take place in Entre Rios, the Argentine province where thousands of Jewish immigrants settled at the end of the nineteenth century. Suez weaves history and memory in these tales of passion, violence, and intrigue. Deborah, the protagonist of ""Lethargy,"" narrates the traumatic experiences of her youth in Basavilbaso, and captures the stifling atmosphere of intolerance and repression during the 1950s. In ""The Arrest"", Lucien Finz, a young Jewish farmer, leaves the rice fields of Villa Clara to study medicine in Buenos Aires, where he becomes a victim of 'La Semana Tragica,' the 'Tragic Week' in January of 1919, when government forces arrested, tortured, and murdered striking workers and many innocent people. ""Complot"" is an intricate web of lust, deceit, murder, and power, which spans the first three decades of the twentieth century, when Great Britain influenced the growth of the Argentine nation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
12 b/w illus
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
417 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-3616-3 (9780826336163)
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Perla Suez is the author of award-winning children's fiction. The Entre Ríos Trilogy brings together her first three novels written for adults. Perla Suez has been Director of Cedilij (Center for Research and Diffusion of Children and Youngsters Literature). She was finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos Award as well as finalist for the Grinzane Cavour Literary Award in 2005.