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At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over three hundred wounded. Originally published in Spanish amid widespread controversy, Once@9:53am: Terror in Buenos Aires imagines the two hours before the attack through the popular format of the fotonovela. Part documentary, part fiction, this vivid retelling of Argentina's deadliest bombing depicts a vibrant, complex urban community in the hours before its identity was forever changed. This expanded English edition includes a new essay by Ilan Stavans detailing the aftermath of the attack and the faulty investigations that have yet to yield any arrests or reach resolution. A unique and powerful visual experience, Once@9:53am is both a commemoration of an atrocity that shifted Latin American Jewish identity in innumerable ways and an ingenious use of a popular format to explore the dangerous intersection of politics and religion in Latin America.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Once@9:53am
• Subtitle: Terror in Buenos Aires
• Author: Ilan Stavans
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9780271077185
• ISBN: 9780271077185
• ID: 10955283
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Weight: 456 g
• Dimensions: 176 × 263 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. October 2016

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