Alicia Steimberg is an Argentine author, an educator, and a translator. She was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach at the University of Iowa and has served as the director of books with the Argentine Secretariate of Culture. Andrea G. Labinger is an emerita professor of Spanish at the University of La Verne, where she is a former founding director of the university's honors programme. She lives in the Los Angeles area.
"[The novel] describes in deliciously wry comic accents the
experiences of an Argentinian Jewish girl. . . . A delightful
book." Kirkus Reviews"
"A pungent, semi-autobiographical account of growing up Jewish in
Argentina in the 1940s, this small gem of a novel (originally
published in Spanish in 1971) is marked by Steimberg's distinctive
voice wittily irreverent, ironic yet warm, at once precocious and
worldly-wise. . . . Labinger's translation is a delight, conveying
the sights, sounds, misconceptions and dreams of an intensely
experienced youth." Publishers Weekly"
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