Portentously taking its section epigraphs from Calderón de la Barca and Dante, Dorfman's latest novel is a slender allegory based on nothing less than the conditions of reality in Continue reading »
EXORCISING TERROR: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet
Ariel Dorfman
Acclaimed Chilean novelist Dorfman (Blake's Therapy,
etc.) offers a work slim but dense with emotion. The author follows the appeals, victories and defeats Continue reading »
DESERT MEMORIES: Journeys Through the Chilean North
Ariel Dorfman
Prolific Chilean writer Dorfman and his wife, Angélica, travel north from Santiago, Chile, through the world's driest desert, the Atacama, an area where two millimeters of rain can cause Continue reading »
Heller Highland, 16, works at "Soft Tidings," an unlikely Manhattan company that delivers "news with a personal touch." Uncommon empathy makes him the firm's choice to deliver Continue reading »
Composed of fragments of narratives interspersed with reviews of other novels whose subject is the socialist revolution in Chile during the early '70s, this novel, written in 1972 and until now Continue reading »
A paranoiac monologue by a nameless man with a face that no one recognizes or remembers reveals a life of carefully constructed obscurity. ``Chilean exile Dorfman's latest work (after The Last Song Continue reading »
In this startlingly unconventional novel by the Chilean exile, unborn babies resist coming into the world as a form of protest again Pinochet's government in Chile, and two exiles discuss the idea of Continue reading »
The Last Waltz in Santiago: And Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance
Ariel Dorfman
The Chilean author who taught us all How to Read Donald Duck here reminds us in a thumping collection of protest poetry that Chile is a country where dissidents continue to vanish without a trace, Continue reading »
Chilean exile Dorfman's latest work (after The Last Song of Manuel Sendero ) is a tantalizingly ambiguous web of deceit, intrigue and obsession, its layers of meaning gradually revealed. The first, Continue reading »
Set in occupied Greece during WW II, Dorfman's first novel to be translated into English limns the women of a village whose men have been imprisoned and killed as conspirators. Confronting their Continue reading »
The title story of Chilean writer Dorfman's ( Mascara ) collection embodies, as dramatically and movingly as any of these 11 passionate, brilliant tales, their common theme of human distress under Continue reading »
The gifted and versatile Dorfman's new novel, written almost entirely in dialogue, develops an almost unbearable intensity as it charts the relationship between its two principal characters in a time Continue reading »
The details of this artfully constructed memoir by a Chilean novelist probably best known in this country for his play Death and the Maiden are dramatic, but what makes the book remarkable is its Continue reading »
Framed as a suicide note from a lovelorn Chilean-American to his Internet sweetheart, Dorfman's eccentric new novel convolutes with its narrator's obsessive musings and exquisite bad luck. On the eve Continue reading »
Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Ariel Dorfman
Exploring for the first time his years in exile following the brutal 1973 overthrow of President Allende by General Pinochet, celebrated Chilean novelist and playwright Dorfman (Death and the Maiden) Continue reading »
Booker winner Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty) traces the divisions of post-Brexit London in this elegant tale of two men’s divergent paths across decades. Dave Win, an aging Continue reading »
A movie star and a disgruntled writer engage in an epic war of words in the brash and provocative latest from Despentes (Apocalypse Baby), set during the Covid-19 lockdown in Continue reading »
De Kerangal’s masterful collection (after Eastbound) examines alienation and grief at pivotal moments in her characters’ lives. In “Bivouac,” a translator reminisces about her Continue reading »
Haddon (The Porpoise) draws on Greek mythology and science fiction for a potent collection of stories about human foibles and desires. In “The Mother’s Story,” a woman sticks up Continue reading »