The Book of Memories

by Ana Mar a Shua, Dick Gerdes (Editor), Stavans Ilan (Introduction)

Overview

The humorous and moving story of three generations of a Jewish family in Argentina.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826319494
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Series:	Jewish Latin America Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.45(d)
Lexile:	1290L (what's this?)

About the Author

Ana Maria Shua lives and writes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Professor Dick Gerdes teaches Spanish at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the cofounder and publisher of Restless Books, and the academic director of the Great Books Summer Program. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, his work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted into film, theater, television, and radio.

Editorial Reviews

"The author's zestful writing style that incorporates a great deal of black humor enhances the bickering sequences of events. Characters are believeable. . . . A good read requiring a great deal of concentration."

AAA1/2Ana Maria Shua's epic work centres round three generations of the Rimetka family, Eastern European immigrants who settled in Buenos Aires, but is equally about the racially and religiously diverse nation that is Argentina. . . . A rich story, individual yet universal, imaginatively told, that draws the reader into "The Book of Memories."AAA1/2

aAna Maria Shuaas epic work centres round three generations of the Rimetka family, Eastern European immigrants who settled in Buenos Aires, but is equally about the racially and religiously diverse nation that is Argentina. . . . A rich story, individual yet universal, imaginatively told, that draws the reader into "The Book of Memories."a

Ana Maria Shuas epic work centres round three generations of the Rimetka family, Eastern European immigrants who settled in Buenos Aires, but is equally about the racially and religiously diverse nation that is Argentina. . . . A rich story, individual yet universal, imaginatively told, that draws the reader into "The Book of Memories."

"Ana Maria Shua's epic work centres round three generations of the Rimetka family, Eastern European immigrants who settled in Buenos Aires, but is equally about the racially and religiously diverse nation that is Argentina. . . . A rich story, individual yet universal, imaginatively told, that draws the reader into "The Book of Memories."

From the Publisher

[An] eccentric comic novel....

New York Times Book Review

Ana Maria Shua's epic work centers round... myth and memory, inextricably bound up with love, are strong. A rich story, individual yet universal, imaginatively told, that draws the reader into the Book of Memories.

British Bulletin of Publications

The author's zestful writing style that incorporates a great deal of black humor enhances the bickering sequences of events. Characters are believeable. . . A good read requiring a great deal of concentration.

BookPleasures.com

[An] eccentric comic novel....

NY Times Book Review