Ariel Dorfman

• May-1983
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Set in a Greek village in 1942, and purportedly written from his imagination by a Danish man before he was picked up by the Gestapo and not seen again, here is Ariel Dorfman’s haunting and universal parable of individual courage in the face of poli...

• Feb-1987
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Denying the future until government leaders end repression, revolutionary fetuses refusing to be born begin to argue amongst themselves and one by one choose to be born until only the son of Manuel Sendero is left...

• Mar-1988
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• Nov-1988
• / General Fiction
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Mascara delves into the dark terrain of identity and disguise when the lives of three people collide. A nameless man with a face no one remembers has the devastating ability to see and capture on film the brutal truths lurking inside each person he e...

• Jan-1990
• / General Fiction
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In stories of lyrical, brutal beauty, a world is created that resonates with fear, betrayal, and authoritarianism, yet is lit by a resilient faith and hope.
 
In the title story, a brother and sister build the “castle” of chairs and bla...

• Dec-1994
• / General Fiction
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Realizing that someone has been watching her when an anonymous caller reveals detailed knowledge about her private life, a woman becomes further distraught when the caller offers disturbing information about her missing lover...

• Apr-1998
• / General Fiction
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Ariel dorfman has been hailed as one of the "greatest living Latin American novelists" (Newsweek) and a "storyteller of almost mythic intensity" (The Financial Times). In his brilliant memoir, Heading South, Looking North, Dorfman explores the many ...

• May-1999
• / General Fiction
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Conceived the night of Che Guevara’s burial in 1967, Gabriel McKenzie is inextricably bound up in the history and politics of his native Chile. Twenty-four years on, and still a virgin, Gabriel returns from Manhattan exile to confront his legacy: a...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2002
• / Literary
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Blake's Therapy is a whirlwind ride through the desires of one man to find something real in a virtual world. After suffering a mental breakdown, Graham Blake checks into the Corporate Life Therapy Institute, where the self-assured, silver-tongued Dr...

• Jun-2005
• / Romance
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It is the simmering summer of 2001 in New York City. Heller is the youngest employee of Soft Tidings, a messenger service whose motto is “news with a personal touch.” At Soft Tidings, a message is not handed over but told to the recipient. And th...

• Apr-2018
• / General Fiction
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From the author of Death and the Maiden and other works that explore relations of power in the postcolonial world comes the story of a man whose distant past comes to haunt him. Is the sordid story behind human zoos that flourished in Europe in the n...

• Jan-2020
• / General Fiction
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The story of a mean and narcissistic king is both uproariously funny and distressingly on point, will be enjoyed by children and their parents."Rabbits don't exist."So decrees the new king, the Wolf of all Wolves, after conquering the rabbits' homela...

• Jun-2020
• / Historical
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Set in the last years of the 16th century, Cautivos is a meditation on writing, writers, and creativity. More than that, this short novel is about confinement, both of the mind and of the body, and therefore also about liberation. Then as now, Islam ...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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“I have created for each of you a fate, one tailored specifically for your needs and desires. Each of you has a defining moment—not before, not after—when a wrong turn or decision led to the disastrous outcome that you and I mourn. ...

• Sep-2023
• / General Fiction
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A Best Book of 2023 by The New YorkerA billionaire Holocaust survivor hires a writer to uncover the truth of Salvador Allende’s death, and they must confront their own dark histories to find a path forward -- for themselves and for our ravaged plan...

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Generally, it's the tortured who turn into torturers." -Carl Gustav Jung. Suspense mounts when Paulina and her husband offer hospitality to a stranger. Paulina thinks she recognizes, in their guest, the man who tortured her in prison, and she subsequ...