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The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival

One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Smuggled out and published anonymously, THE LITTLE SCHOOL is Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment.

Subject
historybiography
Genre
war and militaryhistorical fiction
Themes
social issues
Setting
argentinalatin america
Audience
adult
Length
short · 180 pages
Form
poetry

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