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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Ana María Shua

b. 1951

Ana María Shua is a novelist, poet, and children’s writer from Buenos Aires. She has also worked in advertising, editing, and journalism, and lived in France during Argentina’s period of military dictatorship. Shua’s works, which often use irony, include reflections on Jewish cultural and immigrant experiences.

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