382:, Porter appears only as the partner of the judge Ismael Viñas, depicted as not having play any significant role herself. However, according to her children, she played important an role in the events. When she died, several Santa Cruz workers who survived the army massacres sent her widower a bronze memorial plaque for her grave, but he refused to put it in place, for fear that it would be vandalised.
239:. The family landed in Argentina after being denied entry to the United States because one member was ill. Because she emigrated as a child, aged about four or five, the youngest of four sisters, she retained little of her native language or culture as an adult. Upon entering Argentina, her father changed his surname from Polinsky to Portes.
306:, who at the same time was secretary of the Río Gallegos Rural Society. This, together with the fact that Viñas soon began to investigate acts of corruption involving some livestock companies and members of the territory's rural societies, led to a notorious institutional conflict between the governor's office and the court.
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who is the main figure in the work, who has been interpreted as representing either his father or David's own alter ego. This author idealised the figure of his mother and her rebellious character, which is reflected not only in the female character in this book, but also in other literary works written by him.
291:, the fact that the territory's legal judge was living with Esther Porter, without being married, was considered unheard of. This, together with some of Esther Porter's liberal attitudes, such as going to the cinema alone, meant that she was seen as a woman of advanced ideas. In turn, these attitudes and her
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by David Viñas, one of the main and most important female characters, Yuda Singer, is clearly inspired by her. This was confirmed on several occasions by David Viñas, who recognised several similarities between the two. In turn, this same character represents the ideological alter ego of Judge Vera,
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According to what my father told us much later, when my mother went to visit the prisoners in the police station, one of them stood up, greeted her in
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