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El arresto (The arrest)

The arrest (new edition) Entre Ríos, at the beginning of the 20th century. The Finz, a family of Jewish origin, work the land, they are rice farmers. The mother is dead soon, the voice of the father marks the law with rigor not without cruelty. Lucien is the youngest of the family, and soon he…

El país del diablo

A large company of soldiers has been thrown into empty. White men and indians go away, an army of trained fleas. They’re moving so fast that the wheels of the carts seem to run backwards. The mules are laden with rifles. They go into the country of the devil. It’s a crucial day and the…

Letargo (nueva edición)

The girl slips in and out of the crowd, and hears her brother crying. When she moves closer, she hears the sound of metal hitting the bucket: everything is over. Her father has tears in his eyes, and while everyone celebrates, the girl thinks how lucky she is to have been born a female, even…

Humo rojo

A geography is not a destiny, but many times helps to achieve it. Humo rojo is a novel that bares family relationships. With a sharp writing and an exquisite sensibility, Perla Suez weaves a story where love is elusive, where the past, which seemed sealed, suddenly emerges and buries any future. Humo rojo: Editorial Edhasa,…

La pasajera

The old woman who walks at a steady, brisk pace with her head held high is sixty-seven years old and belongs to a world that no longer exists. She is tall and thin and wears her hair short. In one hand she carries a bag, and in the other, her purse. She looks down the…

Trilogía de Entre Ríos

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 Ríos, 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….

Complot

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. Complot: Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ISBN: 987-545-164-9. First edition: april 2004. 104 pages.

El arresto

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 Trágica, the “Tragic Week” in January of 1919, when government forces arrested, tortured, and murdered striking workers and many innocent people. El arresto: Editorial…

Tumba tumba retumba

Tumba tumba retumba, is an intense, free-of-prejudice tour around Americas words, a tour where new and famous poets coexist, where poems cherised in our memory as well as some other well known or almost forgotten live together Tumba tuma retumba: Alción Editora, Córdoba, Argentina, ISBN: 950-9402-132-3. First edition: june 2001. 216 pages.

Letargo

Déborah, 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. Letargo: Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ISBN: 987-9334-60-4. First edition: may 2000. 90 pages.