Written after the author's own forced departure from Argentina following the military coup, Portrait of an Exile sits somewhere between memoir, reportage and political history.

Graham-Yooll writes from the position of someone suspended between countries, tracing not only the practical realities of exile but the quieter transformations of memory, language, friendship and belonging. Alongside these reflections are sharply observed sketches of life under dictatorship and among the scattered Argentine diaspora.

Full of letters, restaurants, conversations, bureaucracies, homesickness and the recognition that displacement is as much emotional as geographical, it is a thoughtful and increasingly uncommon account of Argentina's Dirty War, viewed through lived experience rather than retrospective history.

Rare. First paperback edition, Junction Books. Light rubbing and shelf wear to the covers with a crease to the lower corner; internally clean and firmly bound.