A Guatemalan Boyhood - Victor Perera

Author: Victor Perera

Publisher: Flamingo, an imprint of Fontana Paperbacks

Format: Paperback

Edition: First Flamingo edition, 1987; first published in Great Britain by André Deutsch in 1986

ISBN: 0006541852

Condition: Second-hand. Good condition. The covers show light age-toning, scattered foxing and minor rubbing and shelf wear. There is a faint diagonal crease or surface mark across the rear cover. The binding remains sound and the internal pages appear clean, with some light age-related spotting. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Rites is Victor Perera’s memoir of growing up in Guatemala during the 1940s, caught between the customs of his Sephardic Jewish family and the violent political and social forces surrounding him.