“Lyrically combining into reality both the fantastic and the horrific, De Robertis weaves a beautiful tale about birth, rebirth, and the responsibility of inheritance from complex, startling history.”
—Booklist
“A riveting novel based on the true story of an adopted daughter of a high-ranking Argentine navy officer who discovers she was stolen from one of the disappeared.”
—New York Daily News
“Expect richly observed detail and real human drama from this award-winning author.”
—Library Journal
“[Perla] is remarkably convincing: The ghost is an effective metaphor for the history Perla’s family can’t suppress, and De Robertis is clearly attuned to the aftereffects of the dictatorship on contemporary Argentina, where it still fills books, newspapers and TV reports. An elegantly written and affecting meditation on life in the wake of atrocity.”
—Kirkus Reviews
