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Victor Perera's father, a talmudic scholar, was a first-generation immigrant in Guatemala who began as an itinerant pedlar, selling bolts of cloth to Indians. He later arranged a marriage by mail with a third cousin from Jerusalem, and gradually became one of the capital's leading merchants. His son moved with the adaptability of a child between the sheltered life of his bourgeois family and the Catholic, anti-semitic and sex-dominated world outside. Victor Perera survived, but the violent character of life in Guatemala - a land haunted by death squads - crippled the lives of his Indian nurse, his white classmates and his "mestizo" best friend.
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Greatly entertaining, certainly one of the most entertaining books I have read in a long time. -- Ian Thomson, The Independent
Perera demonstrates a lively wit on every page. -- The Times Literary Supplement
Perera has brought that curious shape on the map to life. -- The Sunday Morning Post
Rites is an important book for anyone who wants a fuller understanding of the reality of Central America. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Victor Perera's Rites is enjoyable, enlightening, sometimes even startling. -- Norman Lewis, The Weekend Telegraph
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Perera demonstrates a lively wit on every page. -- The Times Literary Supplement
Perera has brought that curious shape on the map to life. -- The Sunday Morning Post
Rites is an important book for anyone who wants a fuller understanding of the reality of Central America. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Victor Perera's Rites is enjoyable, enlightening, sometimes even startling. -- Norman Lewis, The Weekend Telegraph
Victor Perera was born in 1934 of Sephardic Jewish parents in Guatemala. Although he was later educated at Brooklyn College and at the University of Michigan, he has made frequent return trips to Guatemala, and most of his writings are connected with Latin America. He has written numerous articles and essays for, among others, The Atlantic, Harpers, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker. His books include Last Lords of Palenque (co-authored with Robert Bruce) a first-hand account of life among the Lacandon Indians, a minute communtiy that still retained Maya traditions.
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- PublisherEland Publishing Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 090787102X
- ISBN 13 9780907871026
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages220
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RITES : A Childhood in Guatemala
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(1991)
ISBN 10: 090787102X
ISBN 13: 9780907871026
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. First Thus. This new copy is bound in uniform cream, printed card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Perera recalls his upbringing in a (not overly religious) Sephardic Jewish family, living in Guatemala. ('Why Guatemala? Father never explained this to my satisfaction') He takes us through his early years: the family drapery business; school and the bullying of both him and certain teachers; the discovery of sex; his friends. After spending some years in USA, he returns to find Guatemala in the middle of revolution, his own family not untouched by the casual killings. Victor Haim Perera (1934 - 14 June 2003) was an author and journalist primarily concerned with Latin America and Sephardic Jewry. He was best known for his history of the Sephardic Jews, The Cross and The Pear Tree (1995), which traced the path of his own family from 15th-century Spain to 20th-century Guatemala. Ref UUU 1. Seller Inventory # 030670
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