Steps under Water: A Novel

Alicia Kozameh spent more than three years as an Argentinian political prisoner during the 1970s. Now she has transposed her experience into fiction, narrating the ordeal of a prisoner named Sara by means of letters, court transcripts, and vignettes. Steps Under Water has been capably translated by David Davis. And despite a slight slackening toward the end of Sara's story, the author conveys the anguish of her confinement with undeniable power.