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The Family Tree

The Family Tree

by Margo Glantz (Author), Margo Glantz (Author), Susan Bassnett (Translator)

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    Illustrated 1991

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Synopsis

At the heart of this brilliant and colourful Mexican novel lies the search for a family history. Using ancestral recollections, flashbacks through history, and personal memory, the author traces her family roots from pre-Revolutionary Russia to contemporary Mexico. Margo Glantz's Mexico is a mysterious world - a cultural carnival where Flash Gordon crosses paths with Columbus: a Mexico of Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo, hijacked by Dracula and King Kong, filled with the aromas of a kosher bakery and the echoes of jokes, some corny, some not.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 192
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 01 Jun 1991
ISBN 10: 1852421827
ISBN 13: 9781852421823

Media Reviews
?Along with a funny and enchanting memoir of her Jewish family?s migration to Mexico, Margo Glantz has given us in The Family Tree an exploration of what it means to belong to two worlds and how it can enrich our own identity if both of these worlds intertwine? Ariel Dorfman ?From emigration out of the Jewish Ukraine to life in post-revolutionary Mexico, Margo Glantz reconstructs her family history. It is a very Jewish history, but it is also that of millions of others who have known forced departure and exile. The story and the way it is built, relative by relative, is a joy to read? Andrew Graham-Yooll
Author Bio
Margo Glantz was born in Mexico, where she now lives. She has been Cultural Attache at the Mexican Embassy in London and is currently Director of the Literature Programme at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. This edition of The Family Tree is the first English translation of a writer whose work includes novels, short stories and non-fiction and represents an important contribution to the Jewish tradition in the literature of Latin and Central America.