Nora Strejilevich was a young woman when her brother and otherfamily members and friends disappeared at the hands of the military junta that heldpower in Argentina from 1976 to 1983. Ostensibly part of a systematic campaign toeliminate left-wing terrorism, the violence perpetrated by the junta far exceededanything the leftists ever dreamed of, enveloping not only the violent left butother dissidents and innocent civilians as well, and particularly targeting theJewish population. A "desaparecida" herself, Strejilevich survived kidnapping and torture to speak of her experience with adignified voice and a clear-eyed realism that extends from one end of the politicalspectrum to the other.

In the first Englishtranslation of her elegant fictional memoir "Una sola muertenumerosa," Strejilevich combines autobiography, documentaryjournalism, fiction, magical realism, and poetry to express the "choir ofvoices" of the more than 30,000 souls who were imprisoned and abused. Sheengages the reader in the history of a bloody military coup and state-sanctionedanti-Semitism, exploring themes of exile, identity, and violence. Above all, "A Single, Numberless Death" is Nora Strejilevich'sgripping story of survival.