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Sephardic Titles
Mourning for Papá: A Story of a
Syrian-Jewish Family in Mexico. By Jacobo Sefamí. ISBN: 978-1-888205-31-2 $26.98 Using the death of the father as a point of departure, the
novel is divided into ten chapters, a structure that is particularly effective
because the chapters correspond to the ten days that begin on the Jewish New
Year and end on the Day of Pardon... Thus the mythic time of a millenarian
religion such as Judaism is strategically juxtaposed to the recapturing of a
family's memory that is both contemporary and unmistakably Mexican... The
dialogues are tinged with Jewish humor -Jorge Schwartz Each character lives
simultaneously within three cultures -Jewish, Syrian, and Mexican-in a hybrid
narration that produces fascinating mixtures -Lucía Guerra Heaven is Hard to Swallow=Paraísos
duros de roer. By Rafael Pérez Gay. Translated in to English by Dr.
Eduardo Jiménez Mayo. ISBN: 978-1-888205-29-9 $26.95 A
forlorn psychoanalyst; a cultural historian exploring the possibility of life
after death; a middle-aged couple that schedules a rendezvous with a younger
version of itself; a man who compensates for his phobia of death and dying with
intense sadomasochistic practices; a writer who futilely explores the sexual
habits and customs of Mexico City: These five short stories comprise the body of
Heaven is Hard to Swallow (Paraísos duros de roer), the latest masterpiece of
the phenomenal Mexican publisher, journalist and fiction writer, Rafael Pérez
Gay.
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