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    A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party"
    A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party"
    A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party"
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    A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party"

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    A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781410388681
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      A Study Guide for Liliana Heker's "The Stolen Party" - Gale

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      The Stolen Party

      Liliana Heker

      1982

      Introduction

      The Stolen Party (La fiesta ajena) is a story by Argentinean author Liliana Heker. It was first published in 1982, in Heker's volume of short stories Las peras del mal (The pears of evil). The story was translated from Spanish into English by Alberto Manguel and published in 1994 in The Stolen Party and Other Stories. The story can also be found in Heker's collection Please Talk to Me: Selected Stories, edited and with an introduction by Alberto Manguel (Yale University Press, 2015), and in Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women, edited by Alberto Manguel (Clarkson N. Potter, 1986). The Stolen Party is a brief story with a simple plot and only a few characters. A nine-year-old girl named Rosaura is invited to a party in an upper-middle-class home where her mother, Herminia, works every day as a maid. Rosaura is excited about going, but her mother says she is being invited only because she is the maid's daughter. Rosaura refuses to accept this, believing that she has been invited as an equal of all the other children at the party. Eventually, however, she learns that her mother was right. The Stolen Party can be seen as a coming-of-age story in which the protagonist, Rosaura, comes to a sudden, and distressing, understanding about the nature of the society in which she is growing up, which is divided along class lines that cannot be crossed.

      Author Biography

      Novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Heker was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1943. Her parents were poor but believed in the value of education. As a young child, she showed a precocious interest in literature. As she told Zack Rogow in a 2013 interview:

      Beginning at the age of four I can recall making up stories, feeding voraciously on the stories people told me or read to me, as well as those I listened to in secret, and later, when I learned to read, devouring fiction.

      She excelled at writing as well as mathematics at school, and by the

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