Una infancia lacónica

Before becoming a filmmaker and writer, Santiago H. Amigorena was a quiet child, torn between languages, cities, and memories. At eleven, he was torn from Buenos Aires and Montevideo and taken to France, continuing a long line of exiles and escapes. From then on, he learned that silence can be both a homeland and a curse. A Laconic Childhood is the memoir of that boy who tried to understand the world through muteness, the recounting of his first uprooting, his first loves and defeats. In these pages, Amigorena writes like someone seeking an impossible reconciliation: with his childhood, with language, with the loss that underlies all writing. A Book of Origin and Return is also a luminous meditation on the power of words to return to us, for an instant, what we thought was lost.