Musicians and Watchmakers (Discoveries)

By Alicia Steimberg and Alicia Steimberg

Told from the perspective of an adolescent girl, this humorous and deceptively intuitive account of a Jewish family living in 1940s Buenos Aires tackles themes of identity and history through a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093548096X
• ISBN13: 9780935480962
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A colorful narrative of Jewish life in Argentina

"Musicians and Watchmakers" is a first-person narrative about the life of a young Jewish girl in Argentina in the 1940s. Written by Alicia Steimberg, the book has been translated into English by Andrea G. Labinger.Steimberg reflects on the autobiographical roots of this book in an author's note. This is a colorful, frequently humorous narrative. We meet several interesting characters, including her maternal grandmother (an emigrant from Kiev) and her maternal grandfather (a secular Jew and socialist).Steimberg's narrator (named Alicia, like the author) tells about her experience of anti-Semitism, her sexual awakening, her fascination with Roman Catholicism, and other topics. Particularly interesting is the portrayal of life under Peronism. "Musicians and Watchmakers" is an enjoyable contribution to both Latin American and Jewish literature.