Years after she was blindfolded and tortured by Pinochet's police force, Chilean woman Paulina marries Gerardo and through him meets, Roberto, whose voice she is certain was that of the man who tortured her years before.

Death and the Maiden

Literature & Fiction

ARIEL DORFMAN

Dramas & Plays

Penguin??Books

A novel of individual courage and resilience in the face of totalitarian oppression from the author of "Death and the Maiden", together with the author's poems on exile and "the disappeared".

Widows and Last Waltz In Santiago

Literary

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched languages and countries--not once, but three times--is a day-to-day account of his multiple escapes from death during Pinochet's military takeover of Chile in 1973. Combining eight vignettes of his life before 1973 with eight scenes from the coup, Dorfman filters these events through an engaging, hybrid consciousness. A beautifully written and deeply moving auto-biography by one of the "greatest living Latin American writers" (Newsweek), Heading South, Looking North is at once a vivid account of a life as complex and mysterious as the fictional characters Dorfman has created, and an enthralling search for a permanent home, a political cause, and a cultural identity.

'HEADING SOUTH, LOOKING NORTH'

Biographies & Memoirs

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

A Chilean exile in New York, 23-year-old Gabriel McKenzie has a serious sexual the specter of his father, a modern-day Don Juan, makes him fail every time in the bedroom. In Ariel Dorfman's keen comedy The Nanny and the Iceberg, Gabriel goes home with his mother in hopes of solving his problem. Dorfman marvelously tangles this story up with the intricacies of post-Pinochet Chilean politics. Gabriel was conceived the night of Che Guevara's burial. The next day, his father bet his best friend that he would have sex every day for the next 25 years, while his friend bet that he would become the most powerful man in the country. When Gabriel returns to Chile, both men are on track to win. This is also the year in which Chile is preparing to send a chunk of ice from Antarctica to Seville for the 1992 World's Fair (which actually happened). Our hero enmeshes himself and his family in this politically sensitive project, thinking that by putting both parents on the ice-collecting boat he can solve his bedroom complex. "That," says Gabriel, "was my blueprint for sexual success; like in some crazy porno Disney film for kids, I had to get my parents back together again." Of course, his problems are more complicated than that. As Dorfman tracks Gabriel's journey--in which his old nanny is powerfully present--he unleashes some of the major themes of politics, family, lust, and anger. With a marksman's skill, he nails much of what's important in life and what's funny about it. The Nanny and the Iceberg lets life be messy, just as it is. --Katherine Anderson

Nanny and the Iceberg

Contemporary

"One by one, men's bodies are washing up on the shore of the river that passes through town, where they are claimed by the local women as their missing husbands and fathers, even though the faces of the dead men are unrecognizable. A tug-of-war ensues between the local police, who insist that the women couldn't possibly recognize their loved ones, and the women demanding the right to bury their beloveds." Set in a Greek village in 1942, here is Ariel Dorfman's haunting and universal parable of individual courage in the face of political oppression. Widows is a testament to the countless people who are taken away for questioning and never return, and a tribute to those whose fierce defiance ensures that the dead are not forgotten.

Widows: The Heroic Novel of War, Redemption and Survival

Arel Dorfman and Stephen Kesler

ABACUS +

The Other Side

Samuel. French

Purgatorio

Reader: A Play (Acting Edition)

A marathon nine hours talking on the phone, is just one of the conversations between a woman fleeing Nazi Germany and a mysterious stranger on the other end of the line. He claims to be a friend of the man she has come to Paris to look for, and he seems to know everything about her. The police arrive and take her for questioning. By the same author as Death and the Maiden, with the same density of tension and unuttered threat.

Konfidenz (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Vintage

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