Daughter of Silence

by Manuela Fingueret

Book Overview

Silence is a tradition among the women of Rita's family, so it is no wonder that she must interpret for herself what her mother has left unsaid about the horrors of the Terezin concentration camp. But Rita faces a silence of her own: a Peronist militant in 1980s Argentina, she has been incarcerated and abused in Buenos Aires's infamous Escuela de Mec nica de la Armada (ESMA) detention center. In an imagined dialogue between mother and daughter, Rita...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727319
• ISBN13: 9780896727311
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 9.1"