TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brothers,Caroline
TI  - The memory stones
SN  - 9781408844496
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Argentina
KW  - Buenos Aires
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - History
KW  - Coup d'etat, 1976
KW  - Buenos Aires (Argentina)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
N2  - Buenos Aires. 1976. In the heat of summer, the Ferrero family escapes to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a doctor, and his wife Yolanda, gather with their daughters, Julieta who lives in Miami, and Graciela nineteen, and madly in love with her fiance, Jose. Those days will be the last the family ever spends together. On their return to Buenos Aires, the Argentine military stages a coup. Friends and colleagues disappear overnight, and Osvaldo is forced to flee to Europe. When Jose is abducted, Graciela goes into hiding, then vanishes in turn. Osvaldo can only witness the disintegration of his family from afar, while Yolanda fights on the ground for some trace of their beloved daughter. Soon she realises they may be fighting for an unknown grandchild as well. This book tells the story of the Disappeared, thousands of Argentinians who fell victim to the violence of the period. Depicting the despair and hope of one family seeking to rebuild itself after unimaginable loss, it is a lyrical, devastating portrait of a country that has come face to face with terror and the long, dark shadow it leaves behind
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