ABSTRACT
The book Man of Ashes (1990) has been marred by controversy since its inception. Its authorship was put into question by Juan Manuel Rodriguez, whom Salomon Isacovici hired to complete the volume. Isacovici is a native of Sighet, Rumania, also the native town of Elie Wiesel. He emigrated to Quito in 1948. Discussion of Man of Ashes appears in the essay "Novelizing the Holocaust?" (The Essential Ilan Stavans, 2000) and in "The Rights of History and the Rights of Imagination," by Cynthia Ozick (Quarrel and Quandary, 2000). The following is Chapter 19, which is placed toward the end of Isacovici's book. It discusses his impressions of Quito and its population. As such, it addresses a topic almost absent from the considerable literature of the Holocaust: its impact in Latin America.
