Call Me Magdalena

The granddaughter of Russian Jews who emigrated to Argentina, and the daughter of parents indifferent to Judaism who embrace Argentine society, a young Argentine woman is in a cultural limbo, caught between one world she cannot forget and another she wants to embrace in this 1992 Planeta Prize-winning novel.

About the author

Born in Buenos Aires in 1933, the descendant of Eastern European Jews, Alicia Steimberg is a well-known figure in the world of Argentine letters. She is the winner of many prestigious literary prizes, including the 1992 Planeta Prize for Call Me Magdalena. Andrea G. Labinger is a professor of Spanish and honors director at the University of La Verne in Claremont, California. She has translated many works, including Steimberg's Musicians and Watchmakers.

Summary

Erotic entanglements, startling revelations, a furtive intruder, even a possible murder? Not at all what the students of mind control class envisioned when they gathered on a ranch outside Buenos Aires for a relaxing weekend. But here nothing is what it seems, least of all Magdalena herself.

Product details

• Authors: Alicia Steimberg
• Assisted by: Andrea G Labinger (Translation), Andrea G. Labinger (Translation)
• Publisher: Nebraska
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780803292826
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9282-6
• No. of pages: 137
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 186 g
• Series: Latin American Women Writers; Latin American Women Writers
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature