With a background of self-critical humor and a brilliant use of narrative rhythm and literary portraiture, the Argentine Jos Emilio Buruc a tells crudely but without pathos the hectic life of his ancestors, Catalan and Basque emigrants, among whom are a charismatic piano teacher, a pioneer of Latin American medicine, a mother obsessed with Peronism, and a military man persecuted by his fellow coup leaders.
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