A memory from my personal life -- A trip to La Paz -- The preparatory school -- Good manners -- Animals -- Inheritance -- Two ladies and their place -- My time on the divan -- Irazusta -- Kilometer eighty-nine -- I didn't know -- Fabricio -- This is a humane country -- Around the corner -- The land of Formosa -- Río is a state of mind -- The jungles of Lima -- Not meant to be -- Off to Mexico -- A question of belonging -- Corrientes casts a spell -- New Year's in Almagro -- The North American professor -- Inside the circus -- A suit with an extra pair of pants -- My bed away from home.
Summary:
"Uhart reinvigorates our desire to connect with other people, to love the world, to laugh in the face of bad intentions, and to look again, more closely: from lapwings, road-side pedicures, and the overheard conversations of nurses and their patients, to Goethe and the work of the Bolivian director Jorge Sanjinés. “It was a year of great discovery for me, learning about these people and their homes,” Hebe Uhart writes in the opening story of A Question of Belonging, a collection of texts that traverse Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Spain, and beyond. Discoveries sprout and flower throughout Uhart’s oeuvre, but nowhere more so than in her crónicas, Uhart’s preferred method of storytelling by the end of her life. For Uhart, the crónica meant going outside, meeting others. It also allowed the mingling of precise, factual reportage and the slanted, symbolic narrative power of literature" -- Publisher's description.
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