Andruetto, María Teresa
Stefanos weite Reise

A story from Argentina
Translated from Argentinian Spanish by Jochen Weber
Atlantis Verlag/Orell Füssli, Zürich, 2003
sFr. 23.00 / EUR 12,90
ISBN 978-3-7152-0466-6
ages 14 and up
Translation granted by The Society for the Promotion of African, Asian and Latin American Literature and Pro Helvetia
Original: Stefano ©1997 Editorial Sudamericana S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Like all the other young men in his Italian village, Stefano wants to go to America. There perhaps he can make his fortune. In Genoa he boards a large ship, but is stranded in Argentina. He ekes out a living as a farm worker and by playing the saxophone in a circus. The story of an emigration.