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A collection of nine stories by Nathan Englander that address Jewish history and the customs of Orthodox life.

In 1976 Argentina, in the midst of the dirty war, the lives of Kaddish Poznan, a Jewish man who makes his living erasing names from gravestones of Jewish prostitutes and pimps whose descendants wish to erase all connections, and his wife are turned upside down when their son, an idealistic college student, becomes one of "the disappeared, " secretly arrested by the military dictatorship.

"A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years.