Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood - Hardcover
Captures both the burlesque and the cruelties of one boy's experiences growing up Jewish in Guatemala, a country he finds irresistible despite its harshness
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Victor Perera (1934-2003), born in Guatemala, authored numerous books, including Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy, The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey, and a novel, The Conversion. For RITES he won the Present Tense/Joel Cavior Award in Biography. He has also been awarded the NEA Creative Writing Fellowship (1980), the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize (1986), and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writing Award (1992-94). Perera was also a reporter for the New York Times Magazine, a staff member of the New Yorker, and a professor at UC Berkeley. He cofounded Ivri-NASAWI, a national organization celebrating Sephardic arts and culture.
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0151776784
- ISBN 13 9780151776788
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages194
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