Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood

by Victor Perera

Book Overview

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Latino/Latina Studies. Jewish Studies. RITES is Perera's powerful portrait of growing up as a Jewish boy in the exotic and violent world of Guatamala in the forties. "Victor Perera is one of those rare writers who need never suffer the uncertainties of translation, for besides his fluency in both English and Spanish, he has both a Latin American and a North American sensibility. RITES is another fine example of how affectingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151776784
• ISBN13: 9780151776788
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

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Rites

This book came in better condition than it was described to be. It was as if it were new even though it was described as used. Needless to say I was very pleased Regina Immarco