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_bV5413 2009
082 0 0 _aLAS FIC LIS
100 1 _aLisé, Gloria
_d, 1961-
240 1 0 _aViene clareando
_l. English
245 1 0 _aDeparting at dawn
_b: a novel of Argentina's dirty war
_c/ Gloria Lisé ; translated by Alice Weldon
250 _a1st Feminist Press ed
260 _aNew York
_b: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
_c, c2009.
300 _axiii, 175 p.
_c; 21 cm.
520 _aBerta watches as her lover, Atilio, a union organizer, is thrown from a window to his death on the sidewalk below. The next day, Colonel Jorge Rafael Videla stages a coup d'etat and a military dictatorship takes control of Argentina. Though never a part of Atilio's union efforts, Berta is on a list to be disappeared and flees to relatives in the countryside. There she becomes part of the family she knows only from old photographs: Aunt Avelina, who blasts records from an old player; Uncle Nepomuceno, who watches slugs slither in the garden every afternoon; and Uncle Javier, who sits in his tiny grocery store day and night. When Berta learns that government officials are still looking for her, she realizes she must run even further to save her life.
651 0 _aArgentina
_x--History
_y--Dirty War, 1976-1983
_v--Fiction
942 _cLAS
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