Halfon’s book is a powerful evocation of a young boy’s childhood in 1970s Guatemala, disrupted by the increasingly violent guerrilla and army attacks in Guatemala City that led to the arrival of a military junta in 1982 and the flight of the narrator’s (and author’s) family in 1981 to the United
“A truly stunning work with a beautiful stillness to it, very few potential translation issues, and which deserves to be in as many languages as possible. “(Rosalind Harvey)
“A truly stunning work with a beautiful stillness to it, very few potential translation issues, and which deserves to be in as many languages as possible. “(Rosalind Harvey)
Mamen Sánchez absolvierte das Studium der Informationswissenschaft an der Universidad Complutense de Madrid und ein Promotionsstudium für Geschichte und Literatur; sie studierte außerdem Französische Literatur und Kultur an der Sorbonne in Paris sowie Englische Literatur an den Universitäten Lond
