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Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood

Name: Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood
Author: Victor Perera
ISBN: 9781562790653

by Victor Perera

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Overview

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Latino/Latina Studies. Jewish Studies. RITES is Perera's powerful portrait of growing up as a Jewish boy in the exotic and violent world of Guatamala in the forties. "Victor Perera is one of those rare writers who need never suffer the uncertainties of translation, for besides his fluency in both English and Spanish, he has both a Latin American and a North American sensibility. RITES is another fine example of how affectingly he can cross from one to the other, bringing all his insights with him"—Alastair Reid.

About the Author, Victor Perera

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.