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Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
"Once a week, every week for ten years, members of the Polimnia Club have met to read and recite poetry. They are as apolitical, innocent, and innocuous as their verse. But they live in Beunos Aires in the mid-1970s, during the worst of Argentina's "dirty war." Because of that, and because a jealous wife wants to punish her wandering husband, and because the gods are meddling in the affairs of mortals . . . they have all been marked for Death. This...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A unique and moving real-life story of the extraordinary bond between a young teacher and a penguin, this book will delight readers who loved Marley & Me, Dewey the Library Cat, The Good Good Pig, and any book by Jon Katz. In 1975, twenty-three-year-old Englishman Tom Michell follows his wanderlust to Argentina, where he becomes assistant master at a prestigious boarding school. But Michell's adventures really begin when, on a weekend in Uraguay,...
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
"The Disappeared" relives the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83) through the experience of Horacio Pietragalla (aka Cesar Castillo), a young man raised by the maid of the officer who kidnapped him after the murder of his parents by the military. The film follows Horacio as he reconstructs the cause for which his real parents gave their lives, and, through this search, reclaims his true identity. The video personalizes the tragedy that ravaged...