The Ministry of Special Cases

author: Englander, Nathan
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.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: disappeared persons, argentina, fiction, missing children, human rights, jews, missing persons, argentina, history, 1955-1983, fiction
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