argentina

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argentina

Eva Peron

1981

On the pampas

1991
An account of a little girl's idyllic summer at her grandparents' ranch on the pampas of Argentina.

The Nazi hunters

how a team of spies and survivors captured the world's most notorious Nazi
2013
Presents the history of the group of spies, Holocaust survivors, and lawyers who persued Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal, for fifteen years in order to bring him to justice for his leadership role in the killing of thousands of Jews during World War II.

The magic bean tree

a legend from Argentina
1998
A young Quechuan boy sets out on his own to bring the rains back to his parched homeland and is rewarded by a gift of carob beans that come to be prized across Argentina.

Tales of wonder

Folk tales from around the world
1990
A collection of folktales involving wondrous happenings around the world.

The blacksmith and the devils

1992
In this Argentine version of a Hispanic folktale, a blacksmith makes a deal with the devil to extend his youth and good fortune.

No one said a word

2000
Translates Paula Varsavsky's Spanish novel about an adolescent girl, Luz, living in a wealthy section of 1970s Buenos Aires, whose divorced parents' emotional distance and, later, her father's sudden death lead her to a self-indulgent life of drugs and sex, and pregnancy by the age of sixteen.

Juan Domingo Peron

a history
1979

The Ministry of Special Cases

2007
In 1976 Argentina, in the midst of the dirty war, the lives of Kaddish Poznan, a Jewish man who makes his living erasing names from gravestones of Jewish prostitutes and pimps whose descendants wish to erase all connections, and his wife are turned upside down when their son, an idealistic college student, becomes one of "the disappeared, " secretly arrested by the military dictatorship.

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