A Cross And A Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series) - Softcover

"Marjorie Agosín's poetic voice in one breath captures the astounding beauty of the southern tip of the world and the painful memories of a sensitive Jewish girl growing up among Nazi colonizers." --Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits

"A beautiful tale of fortitude, captured in filigree and song, Chilean chiaroscuro. Agosín's poetic prose not only defines a very personal legacy of love, but gives us lovely portraiture as well." --Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

"A passionate, fantastical, poetic book. Marjorie Agosín's power as a poet has never been more evident. . . . In the same sentence she brings us beauty, humor, and tragedy." --Sara Paretsky, creator of the V.I. Warshawski detective novels

Jewish life in Latin America is explored through a "passionate, fantastical, poetic" literary sensibility.