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Twenty-year-old Luz, an Argentinian, is on holiday in Madrid with her husband and new born son. But secretly she has a mission - to find her real father. Carlos was a 'desaparecido' - one of the many political activists in Argentina who literally 'disappeared' during the country's brutal military dictatorship in the seventies - while her mother, a political prisoner, was killed trying to flee the country. The infant Luz was secretly adopted by a wealthy couple, unaware of her true origins. Only three people know Luz's real identity - Eduardo, her 'father', racked by guilt at this deception; the powerful and corrupt General Alfonso, her 'grandfather', determined to keep the secret buried; and Miriam, the prostitute who befriended Luz's real mother in her final days and who returns from exile determined to tell Luz the truth. MY NAME IS LIGHT is a gripping, emotionally charged book, a powerful story about a young girl's quest to find her identity and to uncover the deadly secrets of one of Argentina's darkest periods.
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My Name is Light, Elsa Osorio
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2003
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- My Name is Light
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Elsa Osorio
- Verlag
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2003
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0747551383
- ISBN13
- 9780747551386
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Familie, Italienische Literatur, Gewalt, Spanische Literatur, Suche, Vater, Revolution, Adoption, Verfolgung, Folter, Argentinien, Diktatur, Unterdrückung
- Originaltitel
- A veinte años, Luz
- Bewertung
- 4,35 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Twenty-year-old Luz, an Argentinian, is on holiday in Madrid with her husband and new born son. But secretly she has a mission - to find her real father. Carlos was a 'desaparecido' - one of the many political activists in Argentina who literally 'disappeared' during the country's brutal military dictatorship in the seventies - while her mother, a political prisoner, was killed trying to flee the country. The infant Luz was secretly adopted by a wealthy couple, unaware of her true origins. Only three people know Luz's real identity - Eduardo, her 'father', racked by guilt at this deception; the powerful and corrupt General Alfonso, her 'grandfather', determined to keep the secret buried; and Miriam, the prostitute who befriended Luz's real mother in her final days and who returns from exile determined to tell Luz the truth. MY NAME IS LIGHT is a gripping, emotionally charged book, a powerful story about a young girl's quest to find her identity and to uncover the deadly secrets of one of Argentina's darkest periods.