Victor Perera (1934–2003)
Auteur van Het kruis en de pereboom : een sefardische reis
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- Perera, Victor
- Geboortedatum
- 1934
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2003-06-14
- Geslacht
- male
- Woonplaatsen
- Guatemala City, Guatemala
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Santa Cruz, California, USA - Opleiding
- University of Michigan (MA, English Literature)
- Beroepen
- journalist
lecturer (literature, writing and journalism, at the University of California at Santa Cruz)
lecturer (journalism, University of California, Berkeley)
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- #96,591
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- 3.3
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This review is from: Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood (Paperback)
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.
Perera is a skilful writer but somehow this book - despite its subject matter - failed to really make much of an impression on me.… (meer)