Contributions

  • Silverstein, Phyllis, 1948- - Contributor
  • Payne, Johnny, 1958- - Contributor
  • Porzecanski, Teresa. - Contributor

Publication

2000 - University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Language

English

Word Count

47,250 words, Guess

Page Count

189 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL48907M
  • ISBN-100826321801
  • OCLC Control Number43287723
  • Library of Congress Control Number99050994
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  • LibraryThing6330584

Classifications

  • DDC863/.64
  • LCCPQ8520.26.O7 A25 2000

Alternate Titles

  • Sun inventions ; Perfumes of Carthage
  • Perfumes of Carthage.

Description

"Teresa Porzecanski writes from Uruguay about the multicultural experience of Jewish immigrants in Montevideo. Her exotic characters from Europe, Africa, and the New World bring together and struggle with the mixture of Sephardic, Ashkenazic, and Latin American cultures. Porzecanski is herself the daughter of immigrants who came to Montevideo in 1926 from the Baltics and Syria. Sun Inventions, her first novel, published in 1982, is a semiautobiographical story of an immigrant family from the multifaceted perspective of a woman who is an academic, a mother, a writer searching for meaning in the universe. Perfumes of Carthage (1994) tells the stories of Lunita Mualdeb and her Sephardic family and Angela Tejera [Weaver], whose name was given to her African grandfather by a Brazilian slave owner."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

People

Teresa Porzecanski

Genres

  • Translations into English.

Series Statement

  • Jewish Latin America

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