The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina - Softcover

Alicia Partnoy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939416077 ISBN 13: 9780939416073

Publisher: Cleis Press, 1986

Synopsis

One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Smuggled out and published anonymously, THE LITTLE SCHOOL is Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

From Library Journal

Military regimes are not at all unusual in Argentina, but those that ruled from 1976 to 1979 were unique in the number of civilians, mostly young people, who were kidnapped, jailed, tortured, and/or murdered because of their political beliefs. Late in 1977 the author was taken into custody by the army and sent to "the little school," one of many camps where dissidents were "taught" their "lessons." Imprisoned without charges, she spent almost a year blindfolded and bound, cut off from friends and family, including her child, until being inexplicably released. Partnoy's glimpses of her life in prison are understandably disjointed and meandering, but they stand as a record of character and fortitude. Louise Leonard, Univ . of Florida Lib., Gainesville
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Edition details

• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0939416077
• ISBN 13: 9780939416073
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136