Book summaryThe story alternates between the disembodied voices of 12 innocent victims massacred by Argentina's secret police and the narrative of a scared, traumatized girl, the only survivor of that massacre and an emblem of Argentina itself, as she searches for an identity and a home. Media reviews"Thorton recieved numerous well-deserved awards for 'Imagining Argentina.' 'Naming the Spirits' is even richer, more finely nunanced....The book undertakes what Argentina itself is attempting: to discover and name what happened, which is not only a project of the imagination, as in Carlos' visions, but a political and scientific one....The book is remarkable in the way it exhumes history, and in the artistry with which it does so." |
Naming the Spiritsby Thornton, Lawrence1st Printing
Book desription: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1995. A beautiful, haunting novel--the spirits are Argentina's disappeared. Now in acid-free Brodart.. 1st Printing. Cloth w/boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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