In Duelo, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father’s Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salomón. As he goes deeper, he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South.
Mourning
ISBN: 1942658443
ISBN 13: 9781942658443
Publication Date: May 08, 2018
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Authors: Eduardo Halfon, Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn
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