Hardcover. Stated 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1986 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very clean; pages bright; binding tight. Light wear. 194 pages. Language: English. Jacket art by Karen Barbour. 'In vivid, seductive, mysterious Guatemala, young Victor Perera is an oddity. He is Jewish, and although being different has isolated him since earliest childhood it has also given him a wry and penetrating eye. Guatemala itself abounds in differences with its whites and Indians, its Catholics and its Mayans, its warmth and brutality. With its excesses and contradictions, the country proves a harsh teacher for a boy to be schooled in alienation, machismo, and violence.'--from jacket flap. Keywords: memoir, autobiography.