Mourning for Pap: A Story of a Syrian-Jewish Family in Mexico

by Jacobo Sefami, Jacobo Sefam, Jacobo Sefamí

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888205318
• ISBN13: 9781888205312
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Floricanto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"