Perla (Vintage Contemporaries) - Tapa blanda

"Beautiful. . . . Wrenching. . . . De Robertis is an extraordinarily courageous writer who only gets better with every book."
--Junot Díaz

"Mesmerizing. . . . A moving, poetic novel about the costs of revolution and the evolutionary process that is identity."
--O, The Oprah Magazine

"Haunting . . . a sensitive exploration of love, loyalty, and hope in the wake of atrocity."
--The New Yorker

"De Robertis brings the best of two cultures to bear in her work, melding the Latin literary tradition of magical realism with a thoroughly modern, politically charged North American sensibility. . . . [Her] extraordinary gift makes this brave, important book an object of beauty."
--Chicago Tribune

"De Robertis holds the reader's attention with her entrancingly rhythmic and pulsating prose. . . . [Her] voice is distinctive and her novel vivid and memorable."
--The Wall Street Journal

"A gripping journey that's as heart-wrenching as it is healing; a reminder that the Disappeared must not be forgotten. . . . Both the story and prose flow like a glistening Rio de la Plata. . . . De Robertis' writing . . . from beginning to end hypnotizes with poetic, crushing beauty."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Impressive. . . . Bold. . . . In an artful blend of beauty and horror, De Robertis has made the disappeared visible once again. With that, she has done them--and us--a great service."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"This ambitious narrative . . . is propulsive and emotionally gripping. . . . Culminating in a wrenching catharsis about rebirth and healing."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"[Perla] is a literary descendant of Toni Morrison's Beloved, but very much its own achingly original, hauntingly lyrical outing."
--East Bay Express

"Enthralling."
--New York Daily News

"It's no exaggeration to say I've rarely read a more poetic novel than Carolina De Robertis' Perla. What makes it doubly impressive is the subject matter that this author takes on. . . . De Robertis is a new voice for Latin America, following in the footsteps of Isabel Allende, and dare I say it, Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
--Washington Independent Book Review

"De Robertis skillfully weaves a lyrical voice around her characters that treats victims, perpetrators, and bystanders with the same care and honesty. The result is a powerfully humanizing effort that examines a nation struggling with a very dark, recent past."
--Library Journal (starred review)

"Lyrically combining into reality both the fantastic and the horrific, De Robertis weaves a beautiful and plain-faced tale about birth, rebirth, and the responsibility of inheritance from complex, startling history."
--Booklist (starred review)

"An elegantly written and affecting meditation on life in the wake of atrocity."
--Kirkus Reviews

From the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain, comes Perla, a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history.

Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of her naval officer father in a country still reeling from the abuses of a deposed military dictatorship. But when an uninvited visitor appears in Perla’s home, this encounter sets her on a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life—and to make a wrenching decision about who she is, and who she will become.