Wednesday, March 3, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
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In this festive presentation, David Unger, author of the critically acclaimed Life in the Damn Tropics, will be joined by translators Andrea Montejo and Alexis Romay. Walter Krochmal, an actor and translator, will perform a dramatic reading of “Shabbat Shalom,” accompanied by guitarist Gerard Edery. Raúl Figueroa, publisher of F & G Editores, will introduce. Ni chicha ni limonada (Neither Caterpillar Nor Butterfly) compiles a selection of coming-of-age and other stories inspired by the author’s childhood in Guatemala and the United States. The collection, which includes translations by the above individuals as well as by Argentine author Mempo Giardinelli, has been praised in Three Percent and other publications.

This book presentation will be in English and Spanish.

We thank the Consulate General of Guatemala in New York for helping us publicize this program.

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Americas Society gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of the Literature program Spring 2010 season: Honorary Benefactor Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, the Reed Foundation, and The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. The Literature Program is also made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.


In-kind support is graciously provided by the Consulate General of Canada in New York, the Consulate General of Brazil in New York, and the Consulate General of Guatemala in New York.