The composition
By: Antonio Skármeta ; pictures by Alfonso Ruano.
Contributors: Amado, Elisa.; Ruano, Alfonso, ill.
Edition: 1st English-language ed.
Publisher: Groundwood Books; Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Toronto ; Buffalo; Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Dictatorship -- Fiction; Military government -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Latin America -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When a government official comes into a third grade classroom and tells the students to write a composition entitled "What My Family Does at Night," Pedro must decide how he feels about the military dictatorship that is running his country.
Notes: English translation by Elisa Amado.
Américas Award, 2000.