Family Album - Claribel Algría

[Luke]

Family Album, Claribel Algría, translated from Spanish by Amanda Hopkinson, 1966, Nicaragua/Spain (El Savador/Nicaragua), NOVELLAS

"...In the title story, anecdotes about Ximena's Nicaraguan family are told through memory, conversation, and descriptions of often faceless photographs. Ximena, a middle-class woman living in Paris, wants to understand the relationship of her own comfortable French life to the tortured existence of her relatives in Somoza's Nicaragua..."

(J.L., p. 180)