Antonio Skarmeta

• May-1983
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• Apr-1985
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On 11 September 1973 General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup against the elected government of Salvador Allende, bombing La Moneda, the presidential seat in Chile's capital Santiago where the President died resisting the attack.The National Foot...

• Mar-1987
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• Jul-1991
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This selection of 11 short stories from six collections published over the last 20 years celebrates Skarmeta's return from exile to his native Chile. The familial poignancy of ``Fish,'' the linguistic humor in ``Stuck in the Mud,'' and the suggestion...

• Jun-1995
• / General Fiction
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The unforgettable inspiration for the Academy Award winning Il Postino, this classic novel established Antonio Skarmeta s reputation as one of the most representative authors of the post-boom generation in contemporary Latin American letters (Christi...

• Jun-1996
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Raymond Papst is a middle-aged, Harvard-educated physician living the life of luxury provided by his wife's family until he gives up everything to pursue the fifteen-year-old tennis star Sophie Mass. In this boundary-testing novel, suggestive of sen...

• Feb-2003
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Pedro is a nine-year-old boy whose main interest in life is playing soccer. The arrest of his friend Daniel's father and a visit to the school of an army captain who wants the children to write a composition entitled "What My Family Does at Night" su...

• Jun-2005
• / Romance
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Skarmeta has achieved a complex narrative which nonetheless reads simply, with a smoothness that is not at all naive, because beneath the anecdotes are hidden other readings and thus, with intelligence and joy, the story expands and broadens....

• Feb-2008
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A story of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager young protégé. With prisons overflowing in Chile, the president declares a general amnesty for all nonviolent criminals. Ángel Santiago, a youth deter...

• Jun-2013
• / Literary
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Nico, the son of a noted Chilean philosophy professor, witnesses his father’s arrest while he is teaching a class. Bettini, the father of Nico’s best friend, is a leftist advertising executive who has been blacklisted and is out of work after hav...

• Sep-2014
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From the prize-winning Chilean novelist Antonio Skármeta, author of Il Postino, comes this soulful novella about a son and his estranged fatherJacques is a schoolteacher in a small Chilean village, and a French translator for the local paper. H...

• Oct-2023
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A collection of the best short stories by the author of the unforgettable novel The Postman.Each of the stories in this book is an extraordinary piece of literature. Love, youth, desire, and freedom, coupled with versatile prose, sensitivity, and a s...