"Perfumes of Carthage"
Teresa Porzecanski
1994
In her death agony—which lasted no more than an instant or two—Nazira Mualdeb reviewed the months preceding her granddaughter Alcira’s wedding and a torrent of ghostly images spontaneously abandoned its place of forgetfulness to rise up and impugn the toilsome miseries of her life. From the dining room, Lunita, her ten-year-old granddaughter, was…
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