The Book of Memories
Ana María Shua
1994
A Game of Soccer (193?) in the Back Yard of the Old House
It’s hard to imagine Uncle Silvester making Uncle Pucho eat soap.
Uncle Silvester was always a man of principles.
As proof, there’s the story about the time when that small socialist clandestine press was raided by the police. Uncle Silvester was under age and a Trotskyite, but he was a man…
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