As a trilogy, the novellas offer a powerful resistance against the socio-cultural invisibility of the Jewish immigrant populations, as well as a significant contribution to the literature of marginalization and exile. Suez’s minimalist narratives have profound traces in the other side of the tapestry of what, in the end, is still very much a powerful and significant presence of Jews in Argentina. Indeed, Suez’s three novellas are exercises in reading those backside traces. They are, in the best feminist tradition, stories told from women’s point of view in the attempt to bring forth the way in which social history, so often forged consciously and unthinkingly by men oblivious to women’s participation in it, impacts on women’s consciousness.
- Perla Suez is a major Argentine writer
- She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. (The most prestigious literary prize in Latin America award to woman writer)
- They recently won The Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize for The Devil Country, previously published by White Pine Press
