The Stolen Party and Other Stories by Liliana Heker, translated by Alberto Manguel, was published in Canada in 1994. The individual stories in the collection were first published in Argentina, and the original publication dates range from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, during Argentina's "Dirty War."
Heker's writing belongs to the literary tradition of magic realism, and each of the stories in The Stolen Party contains surreal elements that are situated in realistic settings and described using matter-of-fact language. Heker's protagonists span a wide range in the selected stories from four-year-old girl to aging actress to young male computer programmer, but the themes of...
